Finds

Amphora Almagro 51 (Keay XXIII / Lusitana IV)

(end of III-IV century A.D.)

The Arbatax sea has returned and keeps on returning evidence of the past. Including the amphorae representing one of the most frequent finds.

Found by the Lieutenancy of Arbatax in 1992, this amphora has a cordiform body (fig. 1), is 49 cm high and 84 cm in diameter. It has a narrow neck, wide flared mouth, handles joining the maximum narrow point on the neck with the median part of the shoulder. A short full tip closes the lower part.

This type of container, produced in Lusitania, is certified as from the III century B.C. until the middle of the V, especially in the western Mediterranean. It was used to trade fish preserves (figs. 2-4).

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Fig. 1 - Amphora with condiform body, from Arbatax (from Salvi et alii 2005, p. 82).
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Fig. 2 - Amphora Almagro 51 c (from Caravale, Toffoletti 1998, p. 138).
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Fig. 3 - Amphora Almagro 51 c (from Caravale, Toffoletti 1998, p. 138).
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Fig. 4 - Amphora Almagro 51 c (from Caravale, Toffoletti 1998, p. 138).





Bibliografia

  • M. BELTRAN LLORIS, Las anforas romanas en Espana, Zaragoza 1970.
  • A. CARAVALE, I. TOFFOLETTI, Anfore antiche. Conoscerle e identificarle, Atripalda 1998, p. 128.
  • C. FABIÃO, Las ánforas de Lusitania, Cerámicas hispanoromanas. Un estado de la cuestión, In D. BERNAL Y A. RIBERA LACOMBA (a cura di), Actas del XXVI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores, 2008; pp. 725-745, p. 740.
  • S.J. KEAY, Late Roman Amphorae in the Western Mediterranean. A Typology and Economic Study: The Catalan Evidence, BAR International Series 196, I, Oxford 1984, p. 82.
  • D. SALVI, P. BERNARDINI, M.R. MANUNTZA, G. GASPERETTI, (a cura di L. PUTZU, E. GAUDINA), Tesori riscoperti dalla terra e dal mare: la Guardia di Finanza in Sardegna, Cagliari 2005, p. 82.  

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