Amphores du Ve au VIIe s. à Marseille: nouvelles données sur la typologie et le contenu

Two scattered Late Roman shipwrecks were discovered in the course of underwater survey at Cape Zevgari and Avdimou Bay off the southern coast of Cyprus. Each was transporting a primary cargo contained in amphoras, in one case either local or from nearby Syria or Cilicia, and the other certainly from the southern Levantine coast. The two wrecks offer insight into regional maritime exchange networks within the socio-economic context of late antique commerce around the island. Both sites also contribute to a greater understanding of the utility of systematic shallow-water survey to shipwreck archaeology.

Section: The Cape Zevgari Shipwreckmentioning

confidence: 99%

Two Late Roman Wrecks from Southern Cyprus

Leidwanger

2007

“…LRA 3 and 4 amphoras are found at Carthage by the second half of the 4th century (Hayes, 1976: 117–8; Reynolds, 1995: 71), while LRA 1 amphoras reached the city by the early‐5th century (Riley, 1979, 213). These trade connections are sustained throughout the 5th century, as evidenced by North African (African 3) and Eastern Mediterranean (LRA 1–4) amphoras found together at Marseille (Bonifay and Piéri, 1995), Barcelona (Monfort and Millet, 2005), Otranto (de Mitri, 2005: 414), Corte Vanina just north of Modena, Italy (Corti, 2005: 356), and on a shipwreck‐site in Pantelleria (Abelli et al ., 2007, 59–61; Baldassari, 2009). Merchantmen also carried North African amphoras eastward during the 4th century, for example into the east Adriatic shipping route, where they were sometimes shipped together with LRA types (Jurišić, 2000; Royal, 2012).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Levanzo I Wreck, Sicily: a 4th-century AD merchantman in the service of the annona?

Royal

Tusa²

2012

Between 2005 and 2009 a deep-water shipwreck was located, mapped, and partially excavated by a joint team from RPM Nautical Foundation and the office of the Soprintendenza del Mare, Sicily. Located off Levanzo Island, one of the Egadi Islands off north-west Sicily, this wrecked merchantman revealed a mixed cargo of foodstuffs, coarseware, glass, and construction materials. The nature of the wreck-site, its cargo, operational date, and find-location indicate its likely association with the annona service which supplied Rome.

“…Of particular note in its composition is a high percentage of African pottery (36%), including African terra sigillata A (13%), African cookware (17%), African lamps (4%) and amphoras (2%). Among the last of these there are several examples of the African IIA type produced in Nabeul (Zeugitana) and the rim of an African IIB typical of the Tunisian Sahel, both dated to between the late 2nd century AD and the third quarter of the 3rd century AD (Bonifay, 2016: 513).…”

Section: Lead Labels and Amphoras In The Westmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lead Labelling on Roman Amphoras. A Short‐Lived Fashion?

Quevedo

Díaz

2020

The 1970s saw the first publication of a set of lead plaques used as labels on transport vessels found in a shipwreck off Annaba, Algeria. They were wrapped around the handles of several Africana II C2 amphoras and some referred to officinae, probably of salted fish. Labelling merchandise with tesserae plumbeae was common for products such as textiles in the Roman Empire, but considered unusual on amphoras. New finds in the coastal archaeological sites of the villa of Portmán (Spain) and Portimão (Portugal) have led us to reconsider this statement. In this article we discuss these newly discovered lead labels and assess their chronology, use, and rarity in the archaeological record.