Roman Amphorae: a digital resource
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Almagro 50
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Distinctive FeaturesThis type features a thickish jutting rim with two rounded handles from rim to shoulder and a long cylindrical body with a slight expansion at the base leading to a short hollow spike with a button at the bottom (Almagro, 1955). The Portuguese production is also known as Lusitana 6 (Dias Diogo, 1991). Almagro 50 should not be confused with the Keay 16 type, which is bigger and larger (the basic distinction was drawn by Keay, 1984 for a discussion on the subject see also Fabião, 1997 and Raposo et al, 2004).See characteristics | ||
Date RangeAn example from the wreck of Planier 7 dated to the fourth century (Benoit, 1962: 161), while the example from the wreck of L'Anse Gerbal was fifth century (AD in date (Manacorda, 1977a; cf Keay, 1984).Search: [3rd century AD] [4th century AD] [5th century AD] | ||
OriginPortugal. Kiln sites are known in the Tejo and Sado valleys and coastal Algarve.Search: [North West Europe] [Portugal] [Spain] [Western Mediterranean] | ||
DistributionA mainly western Mediterranean distribution (Panella, 1973; Manacorda, 1977a).Search: [Western Mediterranean] | ||
ContentsFish-products have been suggested (Carandini & Panella, 1981; Keay, 1984) since traces have been found in a number of these amphorae. The proximity between kiln sites and fish-sauce centres reinforces this proposition (Fabião & Carvalho, 1990; Étienne, 1990).Search: [Fish-based products] | ||
CommentsPrincipal contributor: Carlos Fabião | ||
ClassificationAlmagro 50Keay 22 Lusitana 6 Ostia 7 Peacock & Williams 22 | ||
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 | ||
