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Description: | Roman amphora handle fragment. Hard fired mid-orange fabric with c.15% angular quartz temper up to 1mm across. The fragment is the upper part of the handle where it attached to the vessel and is highly curved. White marks go across the breaks and appear to be later deposits. It is 48mm in diameter and weighs 245 grams.The form suggests it is a Dressel 20 or related type. While the fabric is similar to Dressel 1 the form is very different and it is probably a later Dressel 20 as these tend to have a hard fired orange fabric unlike the earlier buff fabric (Tyers 1996:87-9). Such vessels were produced in Baetica in southern Spain and often used to transport olive oil.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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