- Africana 3C Amphora [permalink]
- Type
- Typology Item
- Not after (date)
- 450
- Not before (date)
- 390
- See also
- https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/amphora_ahrb_2005/details.cfm?id=310
- Broader
- Amphora
- Typological identification comment
- Also classified as Keay 25.2.
- Bibliography
- Bonifay2004, pp. 119-122, fig. 65 (Amphore type 29)
- Bibliography
- Keay1984, pp. 186-187, figs. 146, 147
- Bibliography
- Panella1982
- Description
- Late Roman amphora produced across Tunisia and chiefly distrubuted across western Mediterranean. Narrow, cylindrical body with tall, solid spike and distinct, tall-sloping shoulder; tall cylindrical neck with flaring, collar rim; tall, vertical, loop handles with oval section. Typical Tunisian fabric: hard, granular, reddish or orange, with saline wash.
- Chronology comment
- End 4th-first half 5th century
- Has geographic origin
- Tunisia
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Roman (Historical Period)
