Due bolli iscritti dallo scavo del 2009 di Santa Maria d’Anglona

Abstract

In recent excavations on the hilltop of S. Maria d’Anglona, in the hinterland of Policoro, ancient Heraclea, two fictile
finds bearing interesting inscribed stamps were brought to light, among many other uninscribed ones, in an in situ deposit dating back to the 4th and 3rd Centuries B.C. They were, respectively, a loom weight of circular shape with the letters ΦΙ inside a circular stamp, and a flat tile with a rectangular stamp bearing the letters ΠΕΙ/ΣΙΑ, whose shape refers to the 3rd Century B.C., and which can be interpreted as the Doric genitive of the Greek name Peisias. As for the first one there are several more or less precise comparisons among the III-II Century loom weights found in Heraclea and recently published by F. Meo. As for the second, probably datable to the 3rd Century B.C., a unique relevant comparison
can be found in the so called Tabulae Heracleenses, dating back to the second half of the 4th or the beginning of the 3rd Century B.C., specifically in the name of a Heraclean citizen who rented one of the large plots of the sacred lands of Dionysos, which were placed along the road to Pandosia, to be identified in all likelihood with S. Maria d’Anglona.