Newsroom October 2 10:49A large clay amphora, reportedly originating from the sea area off Torone in Halkidiki, is being exhibited for the first time at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, as part of the exhibition program titled “New Acquisitions / New Approaches” (October 1 – December 31). It is a large commercial/transport Mycenaean stirrup-neck amphora from the Late Bronze Age—a unique specimen of its kind in the Museum’s ceramic collection—likely used for storing and transporting plain or aromatic oil. The amphora was donated to the Museum in 2018 by Elisavet Papanikolaou. “If its (alleged) origin from the Torone Gulf is accurate, then it represents the northernmost example of this type of amphora in the Aegean. Which Late Bronze Age coastal sites in the Toronean Gulf could have served as a final destination or intermediate stop along this supposed route?