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Dr
David
Williams
Dept of Archaeology
University of Southampton
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Courtesy of Dr. S. Ladstaetter, Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Antike der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Tamás Bezeczky
Distinctive FeaturesThis type has a long slender neck with two short strap-handles, high rounded shoulders and a tapering solid foot. Broad shallow ribbing covers most of the vessel. This series has a long tradition in the eastern Mediterranean, and from the late first to the fifth centuries AD the series had only one handle and an open hollow foot: Agora F65-66 (Lang, 1955: 277-8; Panella, 1986; Robinson, 1959: M255, M307, etc.). There are two variants of the two-handled variety. Throughout the fifth and early sixth centuries the form had an open hollow foot, while during the sixth century the vessel develops a greater length and has a longer pointed closed toe (Sciallano & Sibella, 1991).See characteristics | ||
Date RangeThe one-handled type appears in the mid first century BC (Bezeczky, 2005; Lang, 1955: 277-8; Panella, 1986), and the earliest example of the two-handled variety seems to be from a very late fourth century context at Santo Sisto Vecchio in Rome (Annis, 1975: 31, Nos. 1 and 2). The trend at Carthage suggests a marked peak in the Vandal period, at about AD 475, followed by a gradual decline until the later sixth century when there is a second peak (Peacock, 1984b).Search: [4th century AD] [5th century AD] [6th century AD] | ||
OriginProbably several production sites in western Asia Minor, including Ephesus, the Meander Valley, Kusadasi, Miletos and possibly Pergamon (Reutman, 1995; Ladstatter, 2000).Search: [Eastern Mediterranean] [Western Asia Minor] | ||
DistributionA widespread distribution ranging from Britain (Thomas, 1981) to Lusitania (Fabião, pers.comm.), Tunisia (Riley, 1981; Peacock, 1984b), Cyrenaica (Hayes, 1973; Riley, 1979), Egypt and Nubia (Emery & Kirwan, 1938), Palestine (Riley, 1975), Romania (Barnea, 1966), and the Black Sea region (Zeest, 1960).Search: [Black Sea] [Eastern Mediterranean] [Egypt] [Great Britain] [North Africa] [North West Europe] [Palestine] [Portugal] [Spain] [The Levant] | ||
ContentsUnknown. | ||
CommentsPrincipal contributor: David Williams | ||
ClassificationBallana 13aBenghazi Late Roman Amphora 10 British B4 Carthage Late Roman Amphora 3 Kuzmanov 7 Peacock & Williams 45 Scorpan 5 Zeest 95 | ||
CEIPAC linkThe following link will take you to the Centro para el Estudio de la Interdependencia Provincial en la Antiguedad Clásica CEIPAC database. In the CEIPAC system this amphora has the ID KE51+BYZ. Note: access to CEIPAC requires registration, which is possible via http://ceipac.ub.edu/corpus_reg.php?IDM=e |