- Keay 52 Amphora [permalink]
- Type
- Typology Item
- Not after (date)
- 700
- Not before (date)
- 340
- See also
- http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/amphora_ahrb_2005/details.cfm?id=161
- Broader
- Amphora
- Bibliography
- Keay1984
- Bibliography
- Panella2001
- Bibliography
- Reynolds1995
- Bibliography
- Sagui1998
- Description
- Late Roman-Early Byzantine wine amphora produced in southern Italy (Calabria-Sicily) that circulated chiefly in the central to northwestern Mediterranean. The eastern market seems to have been limited; examples are known in Athens and the Corinthia. Ovoid, tapered body has flaring, triangular, grooved rim on a cylindrical neck, tall loop handles, and a flat base. Pinkish to pale brown, hard, sandy fabric with mixed quartzitic, schistose, and micaceous content. Mid-4th to 7th century.
- Has geographic origin
- Italy
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Byzantine (Historical Period)
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Roman (Historical Period)
