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Production and
Distribution
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EDITO‘IAL BOA‘D
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Michel BONIFAY, Centre Camille Jullian, (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, MCC, CCJ, F-13000, Aix-en-Provence, France)
Miguel Ángel CAU, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)/Equip de Recerca Arqueològica i
Arqueomètrica, Universitat de Barcelona (ERAAUB)
Paul REYNOLDS, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)/Equip de Recerca Arqueològica i
Arqueomètrica, Universitat de Barcelona (ERAAUB)
Ho o a
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John HAYES, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Asso iate edito s
Philip KENRICK, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford
John LUND, The National Museum of Denmark, Denmark
S ie tifi Co
ittee fo Potte
Xavier AQUILUÉ, Paul ARTHUR, Cécile BATIGNE, Moncef BEN MOUSSA, Darío BERNAL, Raymond BRULET,
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LADSTÄTTER, Fanette LAUBENHEIMER, Mark LAWALL, Sévérine LEMAÎTRE, Hassan LIMANE, Daniele
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I - The P odu tio of Lusita ia A pho ae
P odu tio du i g the P i ipate i Pe i he Po tugal .‘a Mate ials, Kil s a d A pho a T polog ......................... 3
Guilherme Cardoso, Severino Rodrigues, Eurico de Sepúlveda and Inês Ribeiro
‘o a Potte Wo kshop of Qui ta do ‘ou i ol Sei al : Qua tifi atio a d Classifi atio
of A pho a P odu tio ........................................................................................................................................... 19
Jorge Raposo, Cézer Santos and Olga Antunes
The ‘o a Figli a at Ga o hei a Be a e te, Po tugal i the Ea l E pi e ........................................................... 47
Clementino Amaro and Cristina Gonçalves
‘o a A pho a P odu tio i the Lo e Sado ‘egio ........................................................................................... 59
Françoise Mayet and Carlos Tavares da Silva
The ‘o a Kil s at Est ada da Pa oí e, Al á e do Sal Po tugal ........................................................................... 73
João Pimenta, Marisol Ferreira and Ana Catarina Cabrita
‘o a A pho a P odu tio i the Alga e Southe
João Pedro Bernardes and Catarina Viegas
Po tugal ............................................................................ 81
II – A haeo et , Co te ts a d Qua tifi atio of Lusita ia A pho ae
Geo he i al Fi ge p i ts of Lusita ia A pho a P odu tio Ce t es: Tagus, Sado, Alga e a d Pe i he ................ 95
M. Isabel Dias and M. Isabel Prudêncio
Lusita ia A pho ae of the Augusta E a a d thei Co te ts: O ga i ‘esidue A al sis ....................................... 105
Rui Morais, César Oliveira and Alfredo Araújo
Fish Bo es a d A pho ae: Ne E ide e fo the P odu tio a d T ade of Fish P odu ts i Setú al Po tugal ...... 111
Sónia Gabriel and Carlos Tavares da Silva
The M th of Laccatu : a Stud Sta ti g f o
David Djaoui
a Ne Titulus o a Lusita ia D essel
....................................... 117
Do We Ha e the Capa it to U de sta d the E o o of Lusita ia Co
odities? Volu et i Cal ulatio s of
Lusita ia A pho a T pes..................................................................................................................................... 129
Victor Martínez
III – The Dist i utio of Lusita ia A pho ae
– Lusita ia A pho ae i Lusita ia
A pho ae at the O igi s of Lusita ia: T a spo t Potte
Rui Mataloto, Joey Williams and Conceição Roque
fo
Weste
Hispa ia Ulte io i Alto Ale tejo ............. 139
Julio-Claudia Lusita ia A pho ae: a Pe spe ti e o Sele ted Co te ts f o
Rodrigo Banha da Silva, Victor Filipe and Rui Roberto de Almeida
i
Olisipo Lis o , Po tugal .............. 153
Julio-Claudia Lusita ia A pho ae: a Pe spe ti e o Sele ted Co te ts f o
Rodrigo Banha da Silva, Victor Filipe and Rui Roberto de Almeida
Lusita ia A pho ae a d T a spo t Coa se Wa e f o
Jorge Parreira and Marta Macedo
Olisipo Lis o , Po tugal .............. 153
the ‘o a A ho age of P aça D. Luís I Po tugal ........... 167
Lusita ia A pho ae at a Fish-Salti g P odu tio Ce t e: T ia Po tugal ............................................................ 173
Inês Vaz Pinto, Rui Roberto de Almeida, Ana Patrícia Magalhães and Patrícia Brum
O the Way to Augusta E erita. Histo iog aphi al O e ie , Old a d Ne Data o Fish-P odu t A pho ae a d
Co
e e ithi the T ade to the Capital of Lusita ia .......................................................................................... 195
Rui Roberto de Almeida
Lusita ia a d I po ted A pho ae f o
Caterina P. Venditti
the ‘o a To
Lusita ia A pho ae i the ‘o a Cit of Co i
Ida Buraca
of A
aia Po tugal . A Sho t O e ie .................... 219
iga ......................................................................................... 231
A Multi-Dis ipli a App oa h to the Ma iti e E o o
a d Palaeo-E i o e t of Southe ‘o a Lusita ia.......................................................................................... 241
Felix Teichner
The Lusita ia A pho ae f o the ‘o a Villa of Vale da A a ada Po ti ão, Alga e, Po tugal ..................... 257
Carlos Fabião, Catarina Viegas and Vera de Freitas
– Lusita ia A pho ae i Gallae ia, Baeti a a d Ta a o e sis
Lusita ia A pho ae i the No th est of the I e ia Pe i sula............................................................................ 273
Adolfo Fernández Fernández
A pho a Ci ulatio i the Lo e Guadal ui i Valle i the Mid I pe ial Pe iod: the Lusita a T pe ................. 285
Enrique García Vargas
Lusita ia A pho ae i the St ait of Gi alta : I te p o i ial Food Suppl .......................................................... 299
Darío Bernal-Casasola
Lusita ia A pho ae i Ca thago No a Ca tage a, Spai : Dist i utio a d ‘esea h Questio s ......................... 311
Alejandro Quevedo and Sónia Bombico
Es olletes . Lusita ia A pho ae a d Late ‘o a Ma iti e T ade i the I e ia Southeast ................................ 323
Felipe Cerezo Andreo
Lusita ia A pho ae i Ta a o
Josep-Anton Remolà Vallverdú
d-5th Ce tu
AD ........................................................................................... 333
Ea l I pe ial Lusita ia A pho ae f o the Easte I e ia Coast ...................................................................... 343
Ramón Járrega Domínguez and Horacio González Cesteros
– Lusita ia A pho ae Be o d Hispa ia
Lusita ia A pho ae f o the Du p La e a o e the A les-‘h
David Djaoui and José Carlos Quaresma
e Ship
e k ................................................... 357
Lusita ia A pho ae i Ge a ia Supe io , Ge a ia I fe io a d Gallia Belgi a. S a it , Ide tifi atio P o le s,
Co te ts a d I te p etatio s ................................................................................................................................. 369
Patrick Monsieur
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Lusita ia A pho ae fou d o the Pu ta Sa deg a A Ship e k Palau, Sa di ia . A P eli i a ‘epo t o
T pologies a d Fa i s ........................................................................................................................................... 381
Alessandro Porqueddu, Claudia Giarrusso and Pier Giorgio Spanu
Lusita ia A pho ae at Ostia a d i the Vesu ia ‘egio ..................................................................................... 389
Archer Martin
Lusita ia A pho ae i Naples et ee the
Luana Toniolo
d a d the 5th Ce tu
AD ............................................................. 399
Lusita ia A pho ae i ‘o e ............................................................................................................................... 409
Giorgio Rizzo
Lusita ia A pho ae i Ad iati Ital : Co
e ial ‘outes a d Dist i utio .......................................................... 419
Rita Auriemma and Stefania Pesavento Mattioli (with an Appendix by Manuela Mongardi)
Lusita ia A pho ae i the No the Ad iati ‘egio : the Weste
Silvia Cipriano and Stefania Mazzocchin
Lusita ia A pho ae i No the Ad iati Ital : the Easte
Dario Gaddi and Valentina Degrassi
Lusita ia A pho ae o Weste
Sónia Bombico
Medite a ea Ship
Pa t of the Deci a Regio............................... 429
Pa t of Deci a Regio ................................................ 437
e ks: F ag e ts of E o o i Histo ............................. 445
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Lusitanian Amphorae in the Strait of Gibraltar:
Interprovincial Food Supply
Darío Bernal-Casasola*
*Universidad de Cádiz
[email protected]
This contribution addresses the possibility of bidirectional exchange circuits in amphorae between the provinces of Baetica and
Lusitania.
Firstly, the presence of Lusitanian amphorae on the coast of Baetica and in the north of Mauretania Tingitana will be analysed on the
basis of the few published stratigraphic sequences and using the evidence provided by chance finds and older excavations, for the most
part unpublished. The objective will be to draw a picture that reflects the presence of the foodstuffs contained in these amphorae in
Andalusia, taking into account both urban and rural contexts. This will demonstrate that Lusitanian amphorae were present in Baetica,
not in large numbers (approximately 5% of the overall total) but without interruption, between the Flavian period, at the latest, and
sometime around the reign of Justinian.
Secondly, I shall address a series of methodological issues concerning the identification of Lusitanian amphorae, especially the
notorious difficulty involved in distinguishing between common southern Iberian types (particularly Keay XIX, Almagro 50 and
Almagro 51c). Similarly, I shall tackle the issue surrounding the supply of empty amphorae to a number of cetariae in the region, an
issue that has challenged the traditional supply model.
KEYWORDS: LUSITANIAN AMPHORAE; BAETICA; TINGITANA; INTERPROVINCIAL TRADE; STRAIT OF
GIBRALTAR.
As a result, Lusitanian amphorae are now known in
extraordinary scope and detail and are, in fact, among
the better known within the western Mediterranean. This
will be made immediately apparent by the proceedings of
the meeting A Olaria Romana. Seminário Internacional
e Ateliê de Arqueologia Experimental (Seixal, 2010) –
which are currently being edited – as well as by those
of the Conference in Tróia. Recent finds are particularly
important, especially concerning the late republican and
early imperial periods (between Haltern 70 and other
ovoid types, and the earliest series of the Peniche kiln site,
which were at this stage still under study).
Introduction: Lusitanian amphorae between problems
of identification and recent advances in research1
Recent advances have contributed greatly to our knowledge
of Lusitanian amphorae; following the proceedings of
the pioneer meeting in Conimbriga (Alarcão and Mayet
1990) and the publication of Dias Diogo’s (1991) classic
typology, new theories have been put forth, including
those on the Tagus and the Sado published by Mayet
and her team (especially Mayet, Schmitt and Silva 1996;
Mayet and Silva 1998; Mayet and Silva 2002; Mayet
2001), the syntheses and proposals presented by Professor
Fabião (for example Fabião 1996 and Fabião 2004), and
many more which I shall not cite in extenso for obvious
reasons, but among which we may highlight Pimenta
(2005), Almeida (2008), and other works by Almeida,
Bernardes, Filipe, Morais, Quaresma, Vaz Pinto, Raposo
and Viegas. All this work has recently crystallised in the
pages of the Laboratorio Virtual Amphorae ex Hispania,
which at the time of writing this paper included 13 entries
concerning Portuguese amphorae from southern (Dressel
14 and Almagro 51c), eastern (Haltern 70) and especially
western Lusitania (Almagro 50, 51a-b, 51c, Dressel 14,
Haltern 70, Keay XVI, Lusitana 3, Lusitana 9, Lusitanian
‘ovoid amphorae’ and Sado 1). More will be published
soon, covering all production areas.
As is often the case with any issue related to economic
history, this increased knowledge has revealed that
the classification of the series is more complex than
originally thought. Thus, practically every Lusitanian
type is inspired by a typological referent in Baetica while,
at the same time, influencing later Baetican types. For
example, according to Parker’s pioneering work (in the
proceedings of the famous meeting held in Rome in 1974
and published in 1977), all late Roman productions from
Iberia had a Lusitanian origin (especially types Keay XIX/
Almagro 51a-b and Almagro 51c), but it is no longer easy
to draw a line between amphorae produced in the Algarve,
the Tagus-Sado region, and the coast of Malaga, as all of
them have similar red fabrics with heterometric tempers.
This issue has caused some controversy since it was raised
fifteen years ago in the conference Ex Baetica amphorae
(Bernal 2001a). In addition, in recent years new production
areas have been discovered that make the typological and
chronological characterisation of amphorae even more
complex: for example, the workshops of Dar Aseqfane, in
the Strait, which were active in the late imperial period
This work was carried out within the framework of HAR2013-43599
P Project ‘Pesquerías y artesanado haliéutico en el Fretum Gaditanum.
Caracterización arqueológica, arqueozoológica y experimental de las
conservas marinas’, associated with RAMPPA (Red de Excelencia
Atlántico-Mediterránea del Patrimonio Pesquero de la Antigüedad
– HAR2015-71511-REDT), Programa Estatal de Fomento de la
Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia, MINECO, del
Gobierno de España/FEDER. I wish to thank Dr. J. J. Díaz Rodríguez for
his help in the graphic parts of this work.
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and which are currently being studied by a Moroccan
team from INSAP (Rabat) (El Khayari and Akerraz 2013);
we can expect many surprises from that region.2 Also,
we must not forget the workshops located in Gallaecia
in the late Roman period, which produced amphorae at
sites like Bueu (related to the Almagro 50 or Keay XVI
type). Heretofore, when these amphorae were found in
consumption contexts, they were identified as Lusitanian.
We are aware of the recent discovery of examples of
this type in Hispalis and Rome, which are still awaiting
publication;3 it is also important to mention the late Roman
examples from the region of Carthago Spartaria in southern
Tarraconensis, which also produced Almagro 51c, Dressel
30 and other types (Berrocal 2012: figs. 7-9).
related recently to Dressel 30, manufactured in different
centres in Baetica, such as Puente Melchor, on the Bay
of Cádiz, and Los Matagallares, on the coast of Granada
(Bernal 2012).
In contrast, other finds suggest a certain ‘deflation’ of
Lusitanian containers in foreign markets: for example, a
group of Haltern 70 were recently identified as produced
in Emerita Augusta, but the area of manufacture cannot
be determined with certainty because their fabrics differ
totally from those typically found in Lusitania and
their distribution is, moreover, imperfectly understood
(Bustamante and Heras 2013).
The oldest evidence comes from the Flavian site of Los
Cargaderos, near Caño de Sancti Petri, in the Bay of
Cádiz, where nearly a hundred amphorae, reused in the
construction of a quay, have been found (Bernal et al.
2006). This group indicates the sort of product that was
being traded on the Bay of Cádiz during the Flavian
period – late 1st century AD. Thirty-four specimens
were recovered. They belong to diverse types, and as
such they do not seem to have been picked on the basis
of shape; there is even a globular amphora (Dressel 20),
which would seem poorly suited for the construction of
an isolation chamber such as the one in which they were
found, since generally these structures are built with
fusiform containers. The corpus includes two complete
Dressel 14 (Figure 1 A-B), which have been related on
the basis of shape to the so-called ‘Variant C’ from the
Abul workshop, dated to the 2nd century AD (Mayet and
Silva 2002: 105-108, fig. 65-68) and to ‘Variant B’ with
triangular rim from the workshop of Pinheiro, dated to the
second half of the 1st century AD (Mayet and Silva 1998:
63, figs. 20 and 21). The macroscopic comparison of the
clays, which are rich in mica and include large numbers
of metamorphic, heterometric temper particles, with those
in the reference collection in the University of Cádiz
suggested a connection with the products of the workshop
of Porto dos Cacos and the region of the mouth of the Tagus
River, although this is not a secure attribution (Bernal et al.
2006: 209). In terms of percentage, it is unsurprising that
most (85%) of the amphorae recovered during excavation
were of Baetican origin; most of these (73.5% of the total)
were used to store fish products and were, according to the
clays, produced in the region of Cádiz. Concerning shapes,
Beltrán IIA (17 specimens) is the most common, followed
by Dressel 7/11 (five) and Beltrán IIB (three). Olive-oil
amphorae from the Guadalquivir Valley amounted to
11.5% of the total (four specimens of Dressel 20). The
remaining 15% includes containers from three different
regions: Lusitania and Italy, with 6% each (two specimens
of Dressel 14 and two of Dressel 2/4, respectively), and
Tarraconensis (3% of the total, one Dressel 2/4). The
conclusions that can be drawn from this deposit is that,
in the 1st century AD, Lusitanian salted products, mainly
from the Tagus-Sado Valleys, arrived at Gades in limited
amounts (6% in Los Cargaderos) but were much more
common compared to imports from other regions. We must
At present, it is difficult to undertake a precise quantitative
estimation of the presence of Lusitanian amphorae in the
area of the Strait of Gibraltar, as we do not have enough
stratigraphic contexts for the elaboration of a continuous
timeline that covers the imperial period. Therefore, I shall
simply present a preliminary study based on some ceramic
corpora, chance finds, material from old excavations and
underwater finds. At the end, I shall put forward a proposal
that will have to be tested against future finds.
These new finds are indicative of a very complex
panorama that demands the detailed revision of published
material from the Atlantic and the Mediterranean coasts
and the incorporation of petrographic analysis as a routine
tool (as a second best to mineralogical and chemical
characterisation, the cost of which is, unfortunately, too
high for generalised use, despite the potential of excellent
reference collections, for example the one created by the
OREST Project in the Tagus-Sado area).
The impact of Lusitanian amphorae on the coasts of
Baetica and Tingitana: a brief diachronic review
The difficulty in identifying Lusitanian amphorae in
consumption contexts, which becomes more acute the
farther away they are from Lusitania, remains a major
obstacle for their characterisation. This is the impression, at
least, gained from an examination of diverse Mediterranean
amphora corpora, as the only exceptions are whole or
nearly complete specimens. Fabrics require more attention.
Typological features are no longer considered sufficient for
the purposes of identification, except with regard to those
types that were manufactured only in Lusitania – Lusitana
8 (Keay LXXVIII or Sado 1) and Lusitana 9, because in
my opinion the Lusitana 3 type is a polyvalent container
that was manufactured not only in Lusitania; it has been
2
I wish to thank Abdelaziz El Khayari for sharing their finds with us. These
finds include different types, including Keay XIX – Almagro 51a-b.
3
The discovery of the Hispalis examples was confirmed by Enrique
García Vargas, who has recently examined the materials recovered in the
excavation of the Reales Alcázares, Seville; the second group of finds
I was able to examine personally during the workshop on Lusitanian
Amphorae, organised by Archer Martin at the American Academy of
Rome in conjunction with the Howard Comfort FAAR’29 Summer
School in Roman Pottery, when, along with Theodore Peña and Víctor
Martínez, I was able to examine the amphorae found in the context of the
Palatine East Pottery Project, which is currently at the publication stage.
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Figure 1. Lusitanian Dressel 14 from a Flavian context in Los Cargaderos (A-B), in the Bay of Cádiz (Bernal et al.
2006: 211, fig. 11, nos. 30 and 31), and example found underwater (C), currently in the Archaeological Museum
of Cádiz – unknown provenance.
keep in mind that, according to this corpus, Lusitanian
amphorae were on-a-par with those from Italy. To date,
this is the earliest evidence for the arrival of Lusitanian
amphorae in the area of the Strait.4
Another site where a significant quantity of Lusitanian
material has been found is the Hispano-Roman city
of Colonia Latina Libertinorum Carteia, in the Bay of
Algeciras. Especially significant is the handle of an
amphora analysed in my doctoral thesis (Bernal 1997a:
362, fig. 129; more recently Bernal 2011) (Figure 2A).
Both the shape of the stamp, in a rectangular space located
on the outside of the handle, and the double entry of the
inscription – GERMAN(I)/GERMAN(I) – point to the
workshop in Porto dos Cacos, Alcochete, where similar
signacula have been found (Guerra 1996: fig. 5). The
typological characteristics of the handle, which is small and
oval in section with a thin but marked longitudinal groove,
leave few doubts about the attribution of the specimen
to the Lusitana 3 type. Traditionally, this type has been
related to the storage and transport of wine, albeit only on
the basis of indirect evidence (chiefly the flat base). It was
found in the mid 1980s, during the excavation of the baths
of Carteia, and is unfortunately devoid of archaeological
Figure 2. Handle from Carteia with the stamp
GERMAN/GERMAN (A), attributed to a Lusitana 3
(Bernal 1997a: 362, fig. 129; Bernal 2011), and rims
of types akin to Dressel 30/Lusitana 3/Carteia I, from
Carteia (B-C), from the Roman Theatre in Cádiz (D,
Gallery. Sector VIII. Level 3.4-3.1 m)
(after Bernal 1997a: nos. 490 and 493, no. 55, and no.
585, respectively) and Parque Natural, San Fernando,
Cádiz (after Bernal et al. 2003: 150, fig. 31, 3).
context. According to its typological characteristics, it
should be dated to the 2nd or 3rd century AD (Quaresma
and Raposo 2014). This is a relevant discovery, for it bears
witness to the importation of Lusitanian wine in the region
of the Strait in the mid imperial period. This is also the
In addition, a whole Dressel 14 amphora was found underwater,
suggesting that the arrival of this Lusitanian type was not an isolated
occurrence. It is currently in the exhibition hall on Roman trade in the
Museum of Cádiz (Figure 1C).
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Figure 3. Amphorae from the Cabo de Gata shipwreck, off Almería; Keay XVI C (Blánquez et al. 1998: 135, fig. 55).
case with other regions in Baetica, where the presence
of Lusitana 3 amphorae is also significant, for example
in Munigua – currently being studied by Carlos Fabião
– and Hispalis – under study by Enrique García Vargas,
including an interesting deposit that is published in full in
this volume.
It is pertinent at this point to highlight the difficulties
involved in attributing many of these flat-based series
to a specific production area in southern Iberia. Let us
examine, for example, a series of amphorae characterised
by a triangular rim framed by two grooves that run along
the top and the bottom of the rim. These features make for
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Iberian in origin. Their date was deemed to be different
from the well-known cargo of Dressel 20 from Almería,
of unknown origin (Blánquez et al. 1998: 269 and 135,
fig. 55). The revision of the typology of these amphorae,
especially the thinness of the walls and other similarities
with the productions of the figlinae of Quinta do Rouxinol
and Porto dos Cacos (especially variant C) (Almeida and
Raposo 2014), strongly suggest that the shipwreck is
associated with a Lusitanian cargo dating to the Severan
period or, more likely, the early 4th century (as I have
proposed elsewhere; Bernal 2004: 54-55).
an easily recognisable type, as is perfectly illustrated by
two specimens found in Carteia (Figure 2, B-C). The clays
are homogeneous and reddish in colour (Cailleux N39
and M69) and sometimes incorporate white (quartzitic)
heterometric temper particles (which are not visible in other
examples) (Bernal 1997a: III, nos. 490 and 493). These
features have no obvious match among the clays typically
used for the production of Lusitana 3 amphorae. The large
number of examples found in Carteia led me to define a
new type, which I tentatively labelled Carteia I and which
has not been taken up (Bernal 1997a: 313-315, fig. 118;
Bernal 2001a: 364, fig. 40) because no whole specimens
have been recovered and, therefore, its chrono-typological
definition has not been possible. I believe that the type is
related morphologically to the Dressel 30 type. Examples
have been found in Carteia – two specimens –, the Roman
Theatre of Cádiz and Paseo de las Palmeras in Ceuta. They
were all found out of context, except the examples from
Ceuta, which were discovered in association with African
and Puerto Real I amphorae dated between the late 2nd
and the early 3rd century AD (Bernal 1997a: 313, nos. 490
and 493, no. 55, and no. 585 respectively).
We can note the same problem with other common types
along the southern and Atlantic coasts of Iberia, especially
the Almagro 51c and, to a lesser extent, the Keay XIX/
Almagro 51a-b types. A number of Lusitanian examples
of the former have been found in the area of the Strait:
for example, one specimen from the old excavations in
the Roman camp of Tamuda, currently in the Museum of
Tétouan, which is also one of the most complete examples
from Tingitana (Figure 4). There are also other specimens:
for instance, one Almagro 50 currently in the Museum of
Ceuta (Bernal 1997b: 122, MMC/314).
All these pieces, shown in Figure 2 B-E, could be of
Lusitanian origin and are similar to the containers
manufactured in the workshops of Muge – Porto
Sabugueiro, Enchurrasqueira (Bernal 1997a: 313, with
full references) and Quinta do Rouxinol (Raposo 1990: no.
78). At a later date, another typologically identical rim was
found on the site of Parque Natural (Cádiz) (Figure 2 E), in
a context securely dated between 250 and 320 AD. In this
case, the rim was associated with Keay XVI, Dressel 23,
African cooking wares, African Red Slip Ware and mining
lamps (Bernal et al. 2003: 149, fig. 31, 3), which proves
that these materials continued arriving until a very late
date in the 3rd and even during the 4th century.
This sort of find is quite common on Roman sites in the
Fretum Gaditanum. This point can be illustrated with two
sites, one on each shore of the Strait. The archaeological
excavation carried out in the Plaza de África, in the city
of Ceuta in 2006, attested to the presence of Almagro 51c
amphorae throughout the whole sequence between Vandal
levels – AD 425/450 – and those from pre-Byzantine times
– AD 490/500-525 – (Bernal, Bustamante and Sáez 2014:
SU 4020, fig. 4, 7 and 5, 2 and 3; SU 4018, fig. 7, 4 and 5
respectively). It is not always easy to distinguish between
Lusitanian and Baetican (and Tingitanian) amphorae, and
the publication of this excavation adopts a compromise
and labels all of them ‘south Spanish’. It is now clear that
some were of Lusitanian manufacture: for example, the
Almagro 51c that is illustrated in Figure 5A, made with a
Again, judging by their discovery in different contexts
on the coast of Cádiz, they do not seem to be particularly
abundant, but their arrival appears to suffer no obvious
hiatus either. It is also possible that some of the amphorae
found in a late 2nd-century context in the so called
‘Edificio Meridional II’ of the industrial quarters of Baelo
Claudia, the provenance of which is unknown (Bernal et
al. 2007: 401 and 403, fig. 22, nos. 4 and 5, and 29, no.
2), are of Lusitanian origin, as they are morphologically
similar to the Lusitana 3 type.
The types that were being manufactured simultaneously
in the Tagus/Sado area and Baetica, for example the
Keay XVI type, present similar attribution problems.
In some variants (for example A and B) the stamps are
very eloquent, but for others identification is not quite so
straightforward (the well-known Cabrera III shipwreck
has been published as Lusitanian although the fish-product
amphorae that it contained were clearly Baetican in origin).
This is, for instance, the case with the famous Roman
shipwreck of Cabo de Gata, off the coast of Almeria. The
study of the shipwreck yielded a group of 13 amphorae
(Figure 3), which were originally interpreted as southern
Figure 4. Lusitanian Almagro 51c amphora from the
Roman camp of Tamuda, in the north of Tingitana.
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Figure 5. Lusitanian Almagro 51c (A) from an early
6th-century context (U.E. 4018), Plaza de África nº 6,
Septem Fratres – modern Ceuta-; Keay LXXVIII (B, C and
D) and Keay XIXC/Majuelo II (E) from c/ San Nicolás
3-5, Algeciras (UU.EE. 2007 of P-12; 2003 (two) and
2005 of H-100, respectively).
reddish clay and characterised by a grooved handle. It was
found in a context dated to the 6th century AD (SU 4018),
in which these amphorae amount to 12% of the total, some
of which are clearly Lusitanian (Bernal, Bustamante and
Sáez 2014: 832, fig. 8).
Figure 6. Almagro 51a-b amphorae, with zig-zag
profile/Majuelo II (A and B), and Keay LXXVIII/Lusitana
9 (C-F) from the fish-salting factory of El Majuelo,
Sexi (Bernal 1997a: no. 1420, 1421, 1224, 1221, 1231
and 1232 respectively).
Regarding Iulia Traducta (current Algeciras), the
ceramic contexts associated with the cetariae found in
c/ San Nicolás 3-5 have been remarkably rich, especially
concerning levels dating to the second half of the 5th
century AD. Apart from the presence of the Almagro 51c
type, it is especially interesting to find a large number of
Keay LXXVIII at such a late date (Figure 5 B-D). Along
with these, a bell-mouthed, curvy container (Figure 5 E)
was found, which has been considered a variant of the
Almagro 51a-b type (Mayet, Schmitt and Silva 1996:
75), the production of which has been confirmed in the
workshop of Pinheiro as late as the mid 5th century AD
(Mayet, Schmitt and Silva 1996: fig. 51, nos. 173-174).
In San Nicolás, the number of southern Iberian amphorae
amounts to 21% of the total of 154 (MNI), including 5% of
Lusitanian examples (the number could be higher but for a
number of examples of uncertain provenance).
we have found these rims in the fish-salting factory of El
Majuelo, Almuñécar (Figure 6 A and B). The chronology
of these finds is not easy to determine, but must be between
the 3rd and the mid 5th century, on the basis of the presence
of Almagro 51c and Keay XXXVI-type amphorae in the
so-called ‘Building C’, which was excavated in 1984/5.
To date, we have not yet found a whole example, which
would allow us to confirm whether the type is a variant
– or evolution – of the Keay XIX amphorae in their
final stage, as suggested by Mayet, or whether it is an
autonomous series. In any case, its presence in 5th-century
contexts on the coast of Baetica is of enormous interest.
The singularity of the shape led me to distinguish a new
type, Majuelo II, with some possible parallels in Málaga
(Bernal 1997a: 311-312, fig. 117; Bernal 2001a).
This last typological group of containers highlights a
crucial element for the future progress of the discipline.
More effort should be invested in determining amphora
types that were manufactured exclusively in Lusitania, in
order to begin disentangling the Lusitania-Baetica duality.
This same context also yielded a significant number of
small Lusitana 9 amphorae from the fish-salting factory of
El Majuelo, Almuñécar. These amphorae are characterised
by a barrel-shaped body, a grooved profile, parallel walls,
everted rims and a rounded lip; the handles are short
and sub-circular or oval in section (Figure 6 C-F). Some
specimens present pre-firing graffiti on the neck.
‘Zig-zag rim’ amphorae are another illustrative case in
point. To date, their manufacture has been attested only
in Lusitania (Pinheiro in the Sado area), and they were
relatively common in Baetica. In addition to the already
noted example from Traducta, dated to the late 5th century,
Finally, we must mention the discovery of a number of
Lusitanian amphorae found underwater in the area of the
Strait, which are illustrative of interprovincial trade in
southern Hispania: for instance, the well-known shipwreck
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Figure 7. Amphorae found underwater, corresponding to the Sado 3 Type (A), from the shipwreck of Sancti Petri
(A.- SP94-F, NW 1) – courtesy of the research team of the Research Project and Carlos Alonso Villalobos – and
Keay XXIII bis (B) from Baelo Claudia (Bernal 1997a: no. 284).
are short, semi-circular in profile and oval in section.
On the basis of its shape and size, it should be dated to
the 5th century AD, although the type is still poorly
known in comparison with other Lusitanian containers.
These isolated specimens attest to the continued arrival
of different types of Lusitanian amphorae, generally
containing salted fish products, to the coasts of Baetica in
the 4th and 5th centuries AD.
of Sancti Petri, in the Bay of Cádiz, which is currently
under study. To date, the only published material is a
group of 50 coins, dated between AD 337 and 395 (López,
Gallardo and Blanco 2001), recovered from the vicinity of
the shipwreck, and some items that presumably belonged
to the crew, including an African Red Slip Ware dish
(Hayes 67) dated between AD 360 and 470 (Gallardo et al.
1995); the shipwreck must therefore be dated to sometime
in the first half of the 5th century AD. Along with some
African types, the amphorae from the shipwreck include
Keay XIX, Almagro 51c and Dressel 23 shapes, as well
as several examples that are clearly Lusitanian in origin
(Bernal 2004: 41-47). There is an incomplete specimen of
the Sado 3 type (Figure 7 A), probably dating to the 5th
century AD, when the workshops of Pinheiro are known
to have been active (Mayet and Silva 1998: 287, fig. 131).
The characteristics of the clay and the shape very similar to
those found in the amphorae from the Sardinian shipwreck
of Cala Reale, off the island of Asinara, clearly indicate a
Lusitanian provenance.
Discussion and perspectives
As already noted, this is but a first examination of the issue
of trade in Lusitanian products in the area of the Strait. It
is, in consequence, tentative, unsystematic and random, as
it is based on those finds known to the author; in summary,
it is intended merely as the basis for future work.
The presence of Lusitanian containers on the main sites of
the Fretum Gaditanum suggests that Atlantic goods were
a common sight in the markets of the region. From west
to east, they have been documented in Gades (Museo de
Cádiz, Teatro Romano and San Fernando), Baelo Claudia
(underwater finds and perhaps in the southern quarters),
Iulia Traducta, Carteia and Sexi; on African shores, they
have been found in the military camp of Tamuda and in
Figure 7 B also illustrates a Keay XXIII-type amphora
found underwater, in this case near Baelo Claudia; its
size (80.4cm) suggests a late date: it has a fusiform body,
a hyperbola-shaped neck and everted rim; the handles
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Septem Fratres. It is worth noting that I have been personally
involved with the study of all these sites, which probably
means that there are many, as-yet unrecognised examples,
and that a systematic survey would increase the corpus
considerably.From a quantitative point of view, despite the
partial nature of our evidence, it appears that Lusitanian
amphorae were not uncommon in Baetica, and a first
hypothesis concerning Lusitanian trade in the Baetican and
Tingitanian coastal markets may be put forward. It seems
clear that Lusitanian products became familiar in the region
of the Strait from the late 1st century AD onwards, and
maybe even earlier, but this is still to be supported by hard
evidence. Around this date, Lusitanian amphorae amount to
approximately 5% of total imports. Although the evidence
relative to the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD does not allow
reliable quantitative estimations, the general impression
is that the frequency of Lusitanian amphorae increased
slightly over time. This trend seems to continue into the
late imperial period; in 5th century contexts in Traducta,
Lusitanian amphorae amount to approximately 5% of the
total imports; a similar case is presented by Septem Fratres,
where 12% of the total amphorae were southern Iberian,
many of them clearly Lusitanian in provenance.
(5% of the total of containers), but in most places the
identification of Lusitanian amphorae faces considerable
methodological problems, unless exceptionally wellpreserved specimens are involved. A good example may
be found in Ostia, where Lusitanian imports have been
detected from as early as AD 80-90, and were particularly
abundant in 2nd-century contexts: in the Flavian period
they amount to 2.37%, in Hadrian’s reign to 3.21%, during
the Hadrianic-Antonine period to 2.25% and, finally, in the
late Antonine period to 3.47% (Rizzo 2014: 240-242, tav.
35-38 and 408-410). Also, some containers from Palestine,
which have been traditionally considered Baetican may,
in fact, be Lusitanian: for example, a Dressel 14 found in
Haifa (Bernal 2001b: 985, fig. 18). We can expect exciting
new finds in the near future.
Another interesting question is whether continuing to use
the term ‘south Spanish’, coined by Simon Keay (1984)
in his well-known work on the coast of the Tarraconensis,
can be justified. At the time, the discovery of Baetican
productions (based on the similarity of clays with those
found in Dressel 20 and 23) parallel to the Lusitanian ones
made the use of the term a matter of convenience; amphorae
could thus be classified to a general geographical area
without becoming enmeshed in complicated discussions
of provenance.
These data seem to indicate that Lusitanian amphorae
were imported throughout the imperial period; Lusitanian
containers amounted to approximately 5% of the total
number of amphorae found in consumption contexts dated
to the early stages of this interval of time, and maybe their
presence increased slightly toward the middle and the end.
Also of note is that the presence of Lusitanian amphorae
on the Andalusian coasts can be attested until the early 6th
century AD.
While I was doing my PhD in the 1990s, the importance
of late Roman Baetican amphorae became increasingly
apparent, while the problems of distinguishing Baetican
from Lusitanian containers became ever more acute. For
this reason, I also used ‘south Spanish’ profusely, which
gave me a ready-made provenance tag, to the detriment of
geographical precision. The current state of our knowledge,
however, seems to call for a different approach; we have
a much more detailed understanding of production centres
and fabrics, and I think that it is time to put the term to
rest. It was useful at the time, but it is not any more. This
will involve the revision of many attributions, and I am
convinced that many surprises are in store, especially
when it comes to common types (Almagro 50 – Keay XVI,
Keay XIX and especially Almagro 51c).
The following issue that we must tackle concerns the
contents of these amphorae, which, in most cases (the
exception is the Lusitana 9 type, the contents of which
are still uncertain) were salted-fish products, both in the
early (Dressel 14) and late imperial periods (the remaining
types). Why was a quintessentially garum- and salsamentaproducing region importing Lusitanian fish products? I
think that these finds mostly reflect the redistribution of
these containers to the rest of the Mediterranean via the
southern Spanish ports. Also, it is possible that Lusitanian
products were consumed as exotic prestige goods in the
Baetican harbours, which would explain their presence in
cetariae, for example in Traducta.
A paradigmatic example of this sort of process is presented
by the Atlantic-Mediterranean shipwreck map first
published by Étienne and Mayet in the 1990s, and currently
under revision by Sonia Bombico: many of those should
be excluded (as the aforementioned Cabrera III), while
others that were excluded from the published corpora
(for example, the two shipwrecks mentioned previously)
should now be included.
Concerning wine, clearly identified in Carteia through
the presence of the stamp ‘GERMAN/GERMAN’, it also
seems plausible that it was consumed in small quantities,
as a luxury item, alongside other types imported from
different Mediterranean regions (Italy, Gaul, the East,
etc.). Importantly, the presence of these products is small,
but some evidence, for example from Los Cargaderos,
suggests that they were on a level with those coming from
Italy and other Mediterranean regions.
We have, therefore, a long way to go before we have a
reliable and complete map of Lusitanian amphorae in the
Atlantic and the Mediterranean. This must come as no
surprise. Research results often lead to structural changes:
see, for example, the case of the amphorae from Huelva,
which were totally unknown a decade ago and which have
now been fully systematised (O’Kelly 2012), having been
found in faraway locations such as Vigo and Baelo Claudia.
It seems likely that Lusitanian amphorae were present
in other Mediterranean regions in similar proportions
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It is also a good idea to review current ideas with regard
to the cessation of Lusitanian production. A few years
ago, I challenged the traditional thesis and proposed
that Baetican amphorae ceased to be produced with the
Byzantine conquest of Hispania (Bernal 2001a: 240). No
new evidence has come to the fore to challenge this idea; no
archaeological contexts containing Baetican or Lusitanian
amphorae have been found that post-date the mid-6th
century AD, which is the accepted date for the arrival of
Byzantine troops to the Iberian Peninsula (Bernal 2007).
that the empty amphorae were indeed being transported,
but that, in order for the operation to be profitable, they
must have been full of salt or brine (Villaverde 2001: 541542). Other scholars have rejected the idea out of hand –
without having really understood it or the fact that it is
complementary to other models – with poorly constructed
arguments that oversimplify what must have been an
extraordinarily complex economic reality (Teichner and
Pons Pujol 2008; Pons Pujol 2015).
Over time, evidence in support of the proposal has emerged
in other regions, for example in Africa Proconsularis, where
amphorae from Neapolis seem to be used in fish-salting
plants of other cities on the eastern façade of Cap Bon
(Michel Bonifay, personal communication, currently under
study; preliminary data in Ben Moussa et al. forthcoming).
In Lusitania we can cite three examples. In the Algarve, an
area that was peppered with cetariae but poorly equipped
with pottery workshops, the very frequent discovery of
Baetican amphorae led Mayet to propose that the region
was dependent on Baetica for its supply of containers,
an idea that has been recently revitalised (Viegas 2011:
567-575, fig. 78). The well-known fish-salting factory
in Ilha do Pessegueiro, in Alentejo, is another key site
in this regard; it was located on an island, which made it
dependent on the continent for its containers, and maybe
even Baetica, given the abundance of Baetican amphorae
found in the region. Finally, Tróia itself, which had more
than 25 fish-salting-related establishments but no pottery
workshop (Pinto, Magalhães and Brum 2011), depended
on the mainland, where at least nine pottery workshops
were identified with certainty (Almeida et al. 2014: 412):
it is evident that empty amphorae were being shipped
across the few miles that separate the fish-salting factories
from the pottery workshops.
Concerning, more specifically, the production of Lusitanian
amphorae, there is still a ‘psychological barrier’ in the
second half of the 5th century: of the seven entries for
Lusitanian late Roman amphorae currently in the virtual
laboratory Amphorae ex Hispania, only two are dated to as
late as the year 500 (Almagro 51a-b Western and Almagro
51c from the Algarve). The final date for the other entries is
AD 450. This mental obstacle or historiographical burden
is reflected in the day-to-day practice of archaeology, and
amphorae found in contexts that post-date the mid 5th
century are routinely disregarded as ‘residual’, for example
in the Avenue Habib Bourguiba, in Carthage, where, for
instance, Lusitanian Sado 3 amphorae and similar types
have been found in contexts dated to AD 450-475 and even
later (Peacock 1984: 133, fig. 38, no. 52). It is believed
that it is ‘impossible’ for amphora types to be so resilient.
In my opinion, contexts such as the fish-salting vats in
Lagos, dated to the first half/mid 6th century (Ramos,
Almeida and Laço 2006; Ramos et al. 2007) or early 6th
century according to Reynolds, Bonifay and Cau (2011:
30, context no. 59), along with the presence of Lusitanian
amphorae in multiple consumption contexts dated to the
early 6th century, are sufficiently suggestive of the continued
production of Lusitanian amphorae until approximately
AD 550. Future work will have to verify which shapes this
involves and how common they were in quantitative terms.
A careful examination of papyrus documents has recently
demonstrated that empty containers were transported
in Antiquity, something that we already proposed to
have been the case, as proven by commercial contracts,
in the Middle Ages (Bernal 2006: 1381). The transport
of ‘empty’ containers to the delivery point was one of
the last duties of pottery workshops, as specified in
more than ten Egyptian papyri dating mostly to the 3rd
century AD (Gallimore 2010: 182-184). The overland
transport of empty amphorae, mostly on camels, and also
by river, is explicitly mentioned, especially in relation
to wine-producing regions (Gallimore 2010: 182-183).
Unfortunately, such detailed evidence of the everyday is
lacking in the western Mediterranean; however, if these
practices took place in Roman Egypt, it is safe to assume
that they were also followed elsewhere. In the 1980s,
Cockle made similar extrapolations based on potterysupply contracts recorded on papyrus.
Another matter that I would like to raise here is the
geographical distribution of pottery workshops and fishsalting factories, which, as is also the case in Baetica,
shows some discrepancies; not all the fish-salting factories
have pottery workshops nearby, nor are all figlinae
associated with cetariae, wine or olive presses (for the
Algarve and Baetica, see Bernal 2006). As I have already
suggested several times, this suggests that sometimes
empty containers must have been transported at local
and intraregional levels. Some very clear examples seem
to support this idea, on both the Baetican coast and in
the north of Tingitana, where sometimes a figlina and
a cetaria are found to be separated geographically but
working in clear partnership. At least three examples
can be mentioned here: Algeciras-Baelo Claudia, Bay of
Cádiz-Septem Fratres and Mouth of the Guadalfeo RiverSexi (analysed in Bernal 1999 and Bernal and Pérez 2001).
This issue and the radical morphological changes
undergone by Lusitanian and Baetican amphorae in the 3rd
and the 5th centuries AD, with the emergence of totally
new shapes that had no relation to previous traditions,
in what has been called the ‘typological revolution’ (for
In the past, this idea has faced the opposition of traditional
historiography. Sometimes, the hypothesis has been
accepted but with qualifications: some have suggested
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