Amphora type 1, .67 m. high . Mainland Greek origin. Amphora type 2, .77 m. high . West (?) Greek origin. Seven of the eight terracotta hollow ball-shaped containers found scattered among the amphora pile. Their function remains obscure. gested that Punic cylinder shaped amphoras were used to ship dried fish packed in salt. This hole might have been used to help flush out the cakedup salt so that the cylinder could be reused. The other amphora types, none of which has yet been definitely identified, appear to represent West Greek and Mainland Greek types. Two different stamps on amphora handles do not help in the identification. One square stamp is illegible and the other stamp is simply a circle. The stolen cargo of amphoras must have contained numerous examples of these and other stamps but that evidence is, of course, lost forever. Most underwater excavations seem to produce at least one new type of object and ours was no exception. For scattered among the amphoras we found eight ball-shaped (ca. 9 cm. in diameter) terracotta vessels whose use we cannot explain. To our knowledge similar objects have not yet been found on land excavations. 124