Oriental amphorae discovered at Histria in the Acropolis Centre-South Sector (2014)

Abstract

The 75 amphora fragments presented in this paper are part of a lot made up of 315 fragments discovered in 2014 at Histria, in the sector conventionally named Acropolis Centre-South (Acropolă Centru-Sud). The ceramic material is divided in 11 types of amphora and three types of amphora lids. The total pottery lot numbers 12,044 fragments divided as follows : amphorae (72.791%), kitchen ware (22.038%), pottery that could not be ascribed to a certain category (4.018%), lamps (0.232%), different other categories (construction material, Greek pottery, chips ; 0.921%). The statistics based on the entire ceramic lot demonstrate that amphorae remain the most important category of pottery, followed by kitchen ware, pottery that could not be ascribed to a certain category and different other categories (construction material, Greek pottery, chips). The lot we have processed can be divided as follows : amphorae (39.142%), kitchen ware (48.857%), lamps (7.428%) and others (4.573%)

Keywords

• late antiquity
• roman period
• scythia
• histria
• pottery
• amphorae