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Class : Amphoras
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Source : Eastern Empire
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Distribution in Britain
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Source of ware
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A globular two-handled amphora with conical neck, everted rim and
grooves on the upper body in pale fabrics. Produced in the Aegean and
widely distributed around eastern Mediterranean (more rarely in the
west) from the 5th to 7th centuries AD. |
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Fabric and technology
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Hard, fine-textured buff or pink ware, often with large white
inclusions visible.
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Forms
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Two handled vessel with globular body, conical neck and everted
rim; upper part of body covered with a band of horizontal grooves.
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Chronology
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From 5th to early 7th c. AD.
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Source
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The Aegean area, perhaps Chios.
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Distribution
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Wide distribution around the eastern Mediterranean; rare in northern
Europe but some examples on post-Roman sites in Western Britain.
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Aliases
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Keay fabric 21. Keay class LXV. Peacock and Williams
class 43 (Scorpan 7A, Carthage LR2, Benghazi LR2, Keay LXV).
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Bibliography
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General: Tomber and Williams 1986. Distribution: Thomas 1981;
Riley 1979; Reynolds 1995, 71-83; Pieri 1998)
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References
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Pieri 1998.
Pieri, D., 'les importations d'amphores oreintales en Gaule méridionale
durant l'Antiquité tardive et le Haut Moyen Age (IVe-VIIe siècles
après J.-C.). Typologie, chronologie et contenu' in Actes du
Congrès d'Istres. 21-24 mai 1998. Société Française d'tude de
la Céramique Antique, ed. L. Rivet, SFECAG, Marseille, (1998),
pp. 97-106.
Reynolds 1995.
Reynolds, P., Trade in the Western Mediterranean, AD 400-700:
The ceramic aevidence, BAR International Series, 604,
Tempvs Reparatvm, Oxford, (1995).
Riley 1979.
Riley, J. A., 'The coarse pottery from Benghazi' in Excavations
at Sidi Khrebish, Benghazi (Berenice). II, ed. J. A. Lloyd,
Supplements to Libya Antiqua, 5, Department of Antiquities,
Tripoli, (1979), pp. 91-497.
Thomas 1981.
Thomas, C., A provisional list of imported pottery in Post-Roman
Britain and Ireland, Special report, 7, Institute of
Cornish Studies, Redruth, (1981).
Tomber and Williams 1986.
Tomber, R. and Williams, D. F., 'Late Roman amphorae in Britain',
Journal of Roman Pottery Studies, 1, (1986), pp.
42-54.
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