Underwater Archaeology Field School presentation: "African amphoras" by Antonio.

1. African Amphora from By
Antonio Jesús
Byzacene and Tripolitana in T. Montes
Menorca (3th and 4th century)

2. Origin
 In the 3th
century
AD, changed the
comerce of oil
 In 297
AD, Africa
Proconsalaris
divided in three
provinces

3. Clasification of african amphoras
 Zevi and Tchernia
(1969)
 “Africana grande” and
“Africana piccole”
 C. Panella (1973)
 African I (a, b, c, d)
 African II (a, b, c, d)
 Keay (1984)

4. Our amphoras
 Keay VI (African II
C, africana grande)
 Chronology: (230 AD – 350
AD)
 Fabrication: near to Sahel
region
 Content: oil and fish sauce
(garum)

5.  Keay VII (African II
D, anfora grande
 Chronology: 280 AD –
380 AD
 Fabrication: Byzacene
and Tripolitana region
 Content: oil

6. Differences between Keay VI and
Keay VII

7. Comercial routes between Africa
Proconsalaris and Menorca

8. Stamps from Sanisera
BSCD/ LEP(TIS)
MI(NOR
LEP(T)I (S) COL(ONIA) LFE M.A.

9. BSCD/LEP(TIS)
MI(NOR) TEP/LOP
C(OLONIA)
C(OLONIA)
H(ADRUMETUM) IVL(IA)
T(HAENAE)
/ LUCIUS

10. The last stamp we found in the 2nd
sesion
C(OLONIA)
HADR(UMETUM) /MITOR

11. Chronology of Late Empire shipwreck
with amphoras Keay VI and Keay VII
BELTRAN 72 (300 AD – 350 AD)

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