- Keay 52 Amphora [permalink] [show more links]
- Type
- Typology Item
- Not after (date)
- 700
- Not before (date)
- 350
- See also
- http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/amphora_ahrb_2005/details.cfm?id=161
- Broader
- Amphora
- Bibliography
- Keay1984
- Bibliography
- Pacetti1998
- Description
- A Late Roman-Early Medieval amphora for wine. Short, ovoid body, rilled, with flat base, tall cylindrical neck with triangular or flanged rim with interior ledge (“pulley wheel“), and vertical loop handles, oval in section. Made in southern Italy and possibly Sicily from mid-4th to 7th century. Distribution chiefly in central Mediterranean but also eastward.
- Has geographic origin
- Italy
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Byzantine (Historical Period)
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Roman (Historical Period)
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“Keay 52 Amphora.” In Kenchreai Archaeological Archive, edited by J.L. Rife and S. Heath. The American Excavations at Kenchreai, 2013-2025. <http://kenchreai.org/typology/p-keay-52>
