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Digital modeling of function and performance of transport amphorae
International Journal of Ceramic Engineering & Science, 2020 In antiquity, amphorae served as standard transport containers for diverse goods. For packaging of large numbers of amphorae, the basically ovoid‐shaped amphora bodies were stacked in several layers placing their pointed bases into the spaces between the
Anno Hein, Vassilis Kilikoglou
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What was a mortarium used for? Organic residues and cultural change in Iron Age and Roman Britain. [PDF]
, 2011 The Romans brought the mortarium to Britain in the first century AD, and there has long been speculation on its actual purpose. Using analysis of the residues trapped in the walls of these ‘kitchen blenders’ and comparing them with Iron Age and Roman ...
Cramp, Lucy J E +2 more
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Supplying wine, olive oil, and fish products at Mălăieşti Roman Fort and Baths [PDF]
Cercetări ArheologiceArchaeological research conducted at the Mălăiești Roman Fort between 2011 and 2019 uncovered almost 90 fragments of amphorae. These fragments have been categorized based on their contents: wine, oil, and fish products. Aside from table pitchers and some
Andrei Opaiț +3 more
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, 2019 In this chapter, we are dealing with containers attributed to Roman Africa, namely the Roman provinces of Mauretania Caesariensis, Numidia and Africa proconsularis, gathered from the beginning of the 4th century onwards into the dioceses of Africa (in the same time as the new provinces of Sitifensis, Byzacena and Tripolitania were cr eated), a nd ...
Bonifay, Michel, Capelli, Claudio
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Le vin léétanien et de Tarraco à Carthage
Antiquités Africaines, 2020 The article reviews the question of exports of wine amphorae from Hispania Citerior Tarraconensis to Carthage. Delattre’s study of the second wall of amphorae and its re-examination by J.
Piero Berni Millet, Jordi Miró Canals
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Archaeological and archaeometric study of the glass finds from the ancient harbour of Classe (Ravenna- Italy): new evidence [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction: The present study focuses on Late-Roman/Early Medieval glass found in the productive area within the ancient harbour of Classe near Ravenna, one of the most important trade centres between the 5th and 8th centuries AD of the Northern ...
Enrico, Cirelli +5 more
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Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy? [PDF]
, 2013 The authors’ research project in the Pyrenees mountains has located and excavated Roman kilns for producing pitch from pine resin. Their investigations reveal a whole sustainable industry, integrated into the local environmental cycle, supplying pitch to
Ejarque, Ana +4 more
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Roman pottery from an intensive survey of antikythera, Greece [PDF]
, 2011 Recent intensive survey over the entire extent of the small island of Antikythera has recovered an episodic sequence of human activity spanning some 7,000 years, including a Roman pottery assemblage that documents a range of important patterns with ...
Bevan, A +4 more
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer +11 more
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Analysis of the Greek Amphorae Discovered in the Barrow no. 7 at Crihana Veche (Republic of Moldova)
Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2016 The article presents an analysis of the amphora material from the excavation of grave no. 2 of the Scythian burial mound no. 7 near the village of Crihana Veche in the Republic of Moldova.
Natalia Mateevici, Ion Ceban
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