Amphora Rim with Punic Stamp

Fabric is Tunisian, orange-red in color. Rim is trumpet-shaped. Stamp is on the exterior of the rim. Stamp is square, 1.55 cm: in center, a caduceus, right top, lamed (l) in its rare form with an extra downward stroke at the top, below, tet (t) the sign of royalty, left, taw (t). Early Roman amphora type II (Carthage, University of Michigan type series, 1975), local imitation of Phoenician form.