Lusitanian Amphorae: production and distribution

• Type: Book
• Date: 2016

Authors

Pinto, Inês Vaz (Editor) Other; Almeida, Rui Roberto (Editor) Other; Archer, Martin (Author) Other

Publisher

Archaeopress

Oxford

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Humanities > History > Archaeology

FOS: Humanities > History and Archaeology

Other information

DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvxrq19c

Abstract (EN): More than a century of archaeological investigation in Portugal has helped to discover, excavate and study many Lusitanian amphorae kiln sites, with their amphorae being widely distributed in Lusitania. These containers were identified in Ostia and Rome from the 1970s and thereafter in many sites around the Mediterranean, but their numbers have always seemed scarce. Were they not being recognized and therefore underestimated? Were they all fish-product amphorae? Did they ever reach a significant market share in the other provinces of Hispania? And what was their contribution to the supply of the city of Rome or to other cities in the centre of the Empire? This collective volume is a contribution to the discussion of these and other questions, and to a better understanding of the production and distribution of Lusitanian amphorae.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 474

ISBN: 9781784914271

Electronic ISBN: 9781784914288

Collection: Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery