- Africana 2D Grande Amphora [permalink]
- Type
- Typology Item
- Not after (date)
- 340
- Not before (date)
- 250
- See also
- https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/amphora_ahrb_2005/details.cfm?id=6
- Broader
- Amphora
- Typological identification comment
- Also classified as Keay 7 and Beltrán 56.
- Bibliography
- Bonifay2004, pp. 115-119, fig. 62 (Amphora type 26)
- Bibliography
- Keay1984, pp. 121-126, fig. 46
- Bibliography
- Manacorda1977 (Ostia)
- Bibliography
- ZeviTchernia1969
- Description
- Middle-Late Roman amphora produced in central Tunisia with a wide distribution chiefly in the western Mediterranean. Tall, cylindrical body with steep, sloping shoulder and solid, knobbed spike; conical neck with narrow, squared, collar rim; vertical loop handles, oval in section, in shape of ear. Manacorda and Bonifay identified subtypes based on variation in shape of rim. Typical Tunisian fabric: hard, granular, reddish or orange, with saline wash.
- Chronology comment
- Middle 3rd-first third 4th century (or later?)
- Has geographic origin
- Tunisia
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Late Roman (Historical Period)
- Belongs to Historical Period
- Middle Roman (Historical Period)
