- Otranto 1 Amphora [permalink]
- Type
- Typology Item
- Not after (date)
- 1120
- Not before (date)
- 800
- Broader
- Amphora
- Typological identification comment
- Predecessor to Otranto 2 (q.v.).
- Bibliography
- Arthur1992, pp. 206, 208, nos. 818-824, figs. 7.2, 7.3 (Otranto type series, dated 10th-first half 11th century)
- Bibliography
- Tartari1982, pp. 264, 264, fig. 28 (Type 35; Muzeut arkeologjik, Durrës, dated 10th-11th century)
- Bibliography
- Valente2018, pp. 359-360, fig. 3 (Type 1; Corinth, ‟The production of this type [at Corinth] appears to begin during the course of the 9th century, although its manufacturing seems to increase in quantity during the course of the 10th and 11th centuries, and to almost disappear in the first decades of the 12th century”)
- Description
- Early-Middle Byzantine (High Medieval) amphora of Apulian and/or Corinthian manufacture distributed across southern Italy, Adriatic, and central/southern Greece.Ovoid body with and round bottom, low rounded shoulders, truncoconical neck, flaring or cupped but sometimes thickened and drooping rim, with high and wide looping, strongly ridged handles. Fabric at Otranto: cream with pale pink core, somewhat soft, very fine with rare calcareous inclusions. Fabric at Corinth: pale brown, hard fabric with rare red and quartzitic(?) inclusions.
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Early Byzantine (Historical Period)
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Middle Byzantine (Historical Period)
