- Tripolitanian Amphora Type 2 [permalink]
- Type
- Typology Item
- Not after (date)
- 225
- Not before (date)
- 100
- See also
- http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/amphora_ahrb_2005/details.cfm?id=305
- Broader
- Tripolitanian Amphora
- Typological identification comment
- This form is also classified as Ostia 2.
- Bibliography
- Bonifay2004, pp. 89-92, figs. 47, 48 (Amphore type 4)
- Bibliography
- Penella1973, pp. 562-564
- Description
- Subtype distinguised by a relative short neck with a heavy, thickened stepped rim and loop handles attached at or below the shoulder. Made in southeastern Tunisia to western Libya during the 2nd-early 3rd century, though some examples from north Africa date somewhat earlier and well into the 4th century.
