- Africana 2C Grande Amphora [permalink]
- Type
- Typology Item
- Not after (date)
- 310
- Not before (date)
- 250
- See also
- https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/amphora_ahrb_2005/details.cfm?id=5
- Broader
- Amphora
- Typological identification comment
- Also classified as Keay 6.
- Bibliography
- Bonifay2004, pp. 112-113, 114-115, figs. 60, 61 (Amphore type 25)
- Bibliography
- Keay1984, pp. 118-121, fig. 45
- Bibliography
- Manacorda1977 (Ostia)
- Bibliography
- Panella1973 (Ostia)
- Bibliography
- ZeviTchernia1969
- Description
- Middle Roman amphora produced in northern Tunisia that reached central to western Mediterranean. Large, cylindrical body, slightly dumpy, with solid, tapered to knobbed spike and broad, distinct shoulder; tall, truncoconical neck with outward thickened rim, rounded on outer face; vertical loop handles, oval in section, in shape of ear. Three subtypes (1-3) area characterized by differences in shape of rim, neck, and body. Typical Tunisian fabric: hard, granular, reddish or orange, with saline wash.
- Has geographic origin
- Tunisia
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Middle Roman (Historical Period)
