Potsherd: Atlas of Roman Pottery

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Almagro 50 amphoras

A cylindrical amphora with a long body, short spike and neck and thick triangular rim, to which the thick, short round handles are joined, in pale buff or grey fabrics. Produced in the southern Iberian provinces and with a wide distribution around the western Mediterranean and sparsely in the north-western provinces.

  • Iberia
  • 300400
    Almagro 54 (Gaza) amphoras

    A cylindical `cigar-shaped' amphora with two small loop handles and coarse ribbing on the lower body in a rough fabric. Produced in the Gaza district of Palestine and widely distributed around the Mediterranean during the 4th to 7th centuries.

  • Eastern Empire
  • 350600
    B1 amphoras

    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.

  • Eastern Empire
  • 400600
    B2 amphoras

    An ovoid two-handled amphora with a ribbed body in sandy light-coloured fabrics. Produced at several locations in the north-east Mediterranean (Syria, Cyprus and south-east Turkey) from the 5th to 7th centuries AD, and widely distributed around the Mediterranean but more rarely in the north-west provinces.

  • Eastern Empire
  • 400600
    B4 amphoras

    A small slender amphora with rounded shoulder, narrow neck, beaded lip and either one or two tight strap handles in a distinctive red-brown micaceous fabric. This is a long-lived type, produced in western Asia Minor from the 1st to 6th centuries AD, with a wide distribution around the Mediterranean and across the northern provinces.

  • Eastern Empire
  • 200550
    Camulodunum 189 ('carrot') amphoras

    A small amphora with a conical 'carrot'-shaped body, with horizontal ribbing on the outer surface and two small handles, in a red-brown sandy ware. The type was produced in the eastern Mediterranean, perhaps Egypt or Palestine, and widely distributed around the Mediterranean and across the north-west provinces during the 1st century AD.

  • Eastern Empire
  • 40100
    Chalk 6 amphoras

    A tall two-handled amphora with a tapering body in a red-brown fabric with paler surfaces. A rare type with only a few specimens recorded from Britain and Gaul and dating to the 3rd and 4th centuries. The source is unknown.

    200400
    Dressel 1 amphoras

    A tall cylindrical amphora with angular shoulders, long straight handles and a collar rim. This form is the most important Italian wine amphora of the late Republican period, with a wide distribution around the Mediterranean (with many examples from shipwrecks) and across the north-west provinces.

  • Italy
  • -150-10
    Dressel 1A amphoras

    A tall cylindrical amphora with angular shoulders, long straight handles and a collar rim with angular profile. The earlier variety of the Dressel 1 (DR1) group, and relatively rare in Britain.

  • Italy
  • -150-50
    Dressel 1B amphoras

    A tall cylindrical amphora with angular shoulders, long straight handles and a collar rim with cylindrical profile. The later variety of the Dressel 1 (DR1) group.

  • Italy
  • -50-10
    Dressel 2-4 amphoras

    A tall cylindrical amphora with angular shoulders, characteristic bifid handles and a beaded rim. This is the most important wine amphora of the early imperial period, both produced in many regions (notably Italy, Gaul, Spain and the Eastern Mediterranean, but also southern Britain) and exported widely.

  • Gaul
  • Iberia
  • Italy
  • Eastern Empire
  • 0100
    Dressel 20 amphoras and allied types

    A large globular amphora with substantial cylindrical handles and a prominent beaded or angular rim in a characteristic granular fabric, produced in the Spanish province of Baetica from the 1st to 3rd centuries and exported in very large numbers around the western Mediterranean and across the north-west provinces.

  • Iberia
  • 0250
    Dressel 23 amphoras

    A globular amphora with cylindrical handles with beaded rim, in fine-textured buff or cream fabrics. The later variant of the Baetican Dressel 20 class, and rare in Britain.

  • Iberia
  • 00
    Dressel 28 amphoras

    Flat-based two-handled amphora with collared rim with prominent groove on the outer face. Principally from southern Spain, with some production in southern Gaul.

  • Gaul
  • Iberia
  • 00
    Dressel 43 amphoras

    A cylindrical two-handled amphora with an ovoid body, a neck with a bulging profile and peaked handles. Produced in Crete (GR) and distributed around the Mediterranean and sporadically across the north-west provinces during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

  • Eastern Empire
  • 50200
    Dressel 7-11 'salazon' amphoras

    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.

  • Iberia
  • 20120
    Gauloise 12 amphoras

    A flat-based two-handled amphora with a thick projecting rim with multiple grooves on the uppers surface. Produced in Normandy (FR) with a largely local distribution but some specimens in Britain.

  • Britain
  • Gaul
  • 180300
    Gauloise flat-based amphoras

    Flat-based two-handled amphoras typically in a fine-textured micaceous fabric. Produced at a large number of sites across southern France (Languedoc and Provence/FR), and very common in the north-west provinces during the 2nd and 3rd centuries.

  • Gaul
  • 50250
    Haltern 70 amphoras

    A tall cylindrical two-handled amphora with a collared rim, grooved handles and a solid spike, in a distinctive granular fabric. Produced in the Spanish province of Baetica and widely distributed across the north-west provinces during the 1st century AD.

  • Iberia
  • 40100
    Kapitän II ('Hollow foot') amphoras

    A cylindrical two-handled amphora with tapering neck and a short, hollow foot in an orange-red fabric. Probably produced in the Aegean region (GR) and widely distributed around the eastern Mediterranean, but less common in the west.

  • Eastern Empire
  • 250350
    Kingholm 117 amphoras

    A small two-handled cigar-shaped amphora with rilling on the body in a sandy red-brown ware. A rare type, probably related to the Camulodunum 189 carrot amphora and also originating in the eastern Mediterranean. 1st century AD.

  • Eastern Empire
  • 00
    London 555 amphoras

    A cylindrical two-handled amphora with a groove just below the rim, handles with a groove on the outer face and a solid spike, in pale fabrics. A relatively rare type, only recently recognised as a class on sites in Britain and Gaul.

    55125
    Mauretanian Dressel 30 amphoras

    A flat-based two-handled amphora produced in Algeria and widely distributed around the western Mediterranean and more rarely in the north-west provinces during the 3rd century AD.

  • Africa
  • 200300
    Mid-Roman Campanian amphoras

    A cylindrical two-handled amphora with oval-section handles and an almond-shaped rim. The class (only recently recognized) was produced in Italy and has been recorded in gaul and Britain. 3rd century AD.

  • Italy
  • 200300
    North African cylindrical amphoras

    Cylindrical two-handled amphoras of various forms in red fabrics with a distinctive white wash on the outer surface. Produced in Tunisia and widely distributed around the western Mediterreanean and across the north-west provinces from 2nd to 5th century AD.

  • Africa
  • 140550
    Pascual 1 amphoras

    A cylindrical two-handled amphora with a tall collared rim in either dark red or pale cream-coloured wares. Produced in Catalonia (ES), and more rarely in southern Gaul (FR), and distributed across the north-west provinces during the 1st century AD.

  • Iberia
  • 040
    Rhodian (Camulodunum 184) amphoras

    A two-handled amphora with peaked handles, a cylindrical neck and beaded rim. Produced on the island of Rhodes (GR) and adjacent parts of the Asia Minor, and widely distributed around the Mediterranean and across the north-west provinces during the 1st and 2nd centrury AD.

  • Eastern Empire
  • 0150
    Richborough 527 amphoras

    A short cylindrical amphora with small handled and an almond-shaped rim with coarse rilling on the outer body, in a distinctive ware with a greenish tinge and abundant inclusions of volcanic glass. Produced in the Eolian Islands (near Sicily/IT) and distributed around the western Mediterreanean and across the north-west provinces during the 1st to 3rd centuries AD.

  • Italy
  • 20230
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