Roman Amphorae: a digital resource

The aim of this website is to provide an online introductory resource for the study of Roman amphorae. In the Roman empire amphorae were pottery containers used for the non-local transport of agricultural products. Their fragments litter archaeological sites of all kinds on land and at sea and have been a subject of serious study for over 100 years. They are crucially important to archaeologists in providing direct evidence for inter-regional and long-distance movement of agricultural products within the empire, and have been an important source of data in the increasingly sophisticated debates about the scale and structure of the Roman economy over the last thirty years. While the study of amphorae also encompasses the stamps, painted inscriptions (tituli picti) and production sites, this website concentrates upon the containers alone.

• Aims of the website
• The Significance of Roman Amphorae
• The Development of Amphora Studies
• Development of the Roman amphora tradition
• Amphorae and Trade within the Roman empire
• Amphorae and Trade beyond the Roman empire
• Characterization of amphorae

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