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Dressel 7-11 `salazon' amphoras
Class : Amphoras
Source : Iberia
Distribution in Britain
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Distribution summary
Illustration
Illustration (Dressel type series)
Illustration from Dressel's original type series.
Source: H. Dressel Corpus Inscriptionum Latinorum, XV, Pars 1 Rome (1899)
Source of ware
Roman Pottery in Britain
(Tyers 1996)
This ware is discussed on p.98-99 of Roman Pottery in Britain (1996).
Fabric code : SALA
Roman Amphoras in Britain
(Internet Archaeology 1)
Further details of this amphora type are available in the paper Roman amphoras in Britain (Internet Archaeology 1 1996), including:
National Roman Fabric Reference Collection
(Tomber & Dore 1998)
Cross-reference from this group to fabric descriptions published in The National Roman Fabric Reference Collection (1998):
BAT AM 1
Baetican (Early) amphorae 1 p.84
CAD AM
Cadiz amphorae p.87
P&W AM 16
Peacock & Williams Class 16 amphorae p.107

Illustrations of these fabrics are available only in the printed catalogue: R. Tomber & J. Dore, The national Roman fabric reference collection. A handbook Museum of London Archaeology Service, London. MOLAS monograph 2. (1998).

Summary
A series of cylindrical two-handled amphoras in pale fabrics produced in southern Spain with a wide distribution around the western Mediterranean and across the north-west provinces during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.
Photograph 1