Lusitanian Amphorae : Production and Distribution

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.

Table of Contents

I The Production of Lusitanian Amphorae: Production during the Principate in Peniche (Portugal)

Raw Materials, Kilns and Amphora Typology (Guilherme Cardoso, Severino Rodrigues, Eurico de Sepúlveda and Inês Ribeiro)

Roman Pottery Workshop of Quinta do Rouxinol (Seixal): Quantification and Classification of Amphora Production (Jorge Raposo, Cézer Santos and Olga Antunes)

The Roman Figlina at Garrocheira, Benavente, Portugal in the Early Empire (Clementino Amaro and Cristina Gonçalves)

Roman Amphora Production in the Lower Sado Region (Françoise Mayet and Carlos Tavares da Silva)

The Roman Kilns at Estrada da Parvoíce, Alcácer do Sal (Portugal) (João Pimenta, Marisol Ferreira and Ana Catarina Cabrita)

Roman Amphora Production in the Algarve (Southern Portugal) (João Pedro Bernardes and Catarina Viegas)

II Archaeometry, Contents and Quantification of Lusitanian Amphorae

Geochemical Fingerprints of Lusitanian Amphora Production Centres: Tagus, Sado, Algarve and Peniche (M. Isabel Dias and M. Isabel Prudêncio)

Lusitanian Amphorae of the Augustan Era and their Contents: Organic Residue Analysis (Rui Morais, César Oliveira and Alfredo Araújo)

Fish Bones and Amphorae: New Evidence for the Production and Trade of Fish Products in Setúbal (Portugal) (Sónia Gabriel and Carlos Tavares da Silva)

The Myth of ‘Laccatvm:’ a Study Starting from a New Titulus on a Lusitanian Dressel 14 (David Djaoui)

Do We Have the Capacity to Understand the Economy of Lusitanian Commodities? Volumetric Calculations of Lusitanian Amphora Types (Victor Martínez)

III The Distribution of Lusitanian Amphorae: III.1 Lusitanian Amphorae in Lusitania: Amphorae at the Origins of Lusitania: Transport Pottery from Western Hispania Ulterior in Alto Alentejo (Rui Mataloto, Joey Williams and Conceição Roque)

Julio-Claudian Lusitanian Amphorae: a Perspective on Selected Contexts from Olisipo (Lisbon, Portugal) (Rodrigo Banha da Silva, Victor Filipe and Rui Roberto de Almeida)

Lusitanian Amphorae and Transport Common Ware from the Roman Anchorage of Praça D. Luís I (Portugal) (Jorge Parreira and Marta Macedo)

Lusitanian Amphorae at a Fish-salting Production Centre: Tróia (Portugal) (Inês Vaz Pinto, Rui de Almeida, Ana Patrícia Magalhães and Patrícia Brum)

On the way to Augusta Emerita. Historiographical overview, old and new data on fish-product amphorae and commerce within the trade to the capital of Lusitania (Rui Roberto de Almeida)

Lusitanian and Imported Amphorae from the Roman Town of Ammaia (Portugal). A Short Overview (Caterina P. Venditti)

Lusitanian Amphorae in the Roman City of Conimbriga (Ida Buraca)

A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Maritime Economy and Palaeo-Environment of Southern Roman Lusitania (Felix Teichner)

The Lusitanian Amphorae from the Roman Villa of Vale da Arrancada (Portimão, Algarve, Portugal) (Carlos Fabião, Catarina Viegas and Vera de Freitas)

III.2 Lusitanian Amphorae in Gallaecia, Baetica and Tarraconensis: Lusitanian Amphorae in the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula (Adolfo Fernández Fernández)

Amphora Circulation in the Lower Guadalquivir Valley in the Mid Imperial Period: the Lusitana 3 Type (Enrique García Vargas)

Lusitanian Amphorae in the Strait of Gibraltar: Interprovincial Food Supply (Darío Bernal Casasola)

Lusitanian Amphorae in Carthago Nova (Cartagena, Spain): Distribution and Research Questions (Alejandro Quevedo and Sónia Bombico)

Escolletes 1. Lusitanian Amphorae and Late Roman Maritime Trade in the Iberian Southeast (Felipe Cerezo Andreo)

Lusitanian Amphorae in Tarraco (3rd–5th Century AD) (Josep–Anton Remolà Vallverdù)

Early Imperial Lusitanian Amphorae from the Eastern Iberian Coast (Ramón Járrega Domínguez and Horacio González Cesteros)

III.3 Lusitanian Amphorae Beyond Hispania: Lusitanian Amphorae from the Dump Layer above the Arles-Rhône 3 Shipwreck (David Djaoui and José Carlos Quaresma)

Lusitanian amphorae in Germania Superior, Germania Inferior and Gallia Belgica. Scarcity, identification problems, contexts and interpretations (Patrick Monsieur)

Lusitanian Amphorae found on the Punta Sardegna A Shipwreck (Palau, Sardinia). A Preliminary Report on Typologies and Fabrics (Alessandro Porqueddu, Claudia Giarrusso and Pier Giorgio Spanu)

Lusitanian Amphorae at Ostia and in the Vesuvian Region (Archer Martin)

Lusitanian Amphorae in Naples between the 3rd and the 5th Century AD (Luana Toniolo)

Lusitanian Amphorae in Rome (Giorgio Rizzo)

Lusitanian Amphorae in Adriatic Italy: Commercial Routes and Distribution (Rita Auriemma and Stefania Pesavento Mattioli with an Appendix by Manuela Mongardi)

Lusitanian Amphorae in the Northern Adriatic Region: the Western Part of the Decima Regio (Silvia Cipriano and Stefania Mazzocchin)

Lusitanian Amphorae in Northern Adriatic Italy: the Eastern Part of Decima Regio (Dario Gaddi and Valentina Degrassi)

Lusitanian Amphorae on Western Mediterranean Shipwrecks: Fragments of Economic History (Sónia Bombico)