Amphora Types According to Dressel This table for dating amphoras is taken from Heinrich Dressel: Corpus Inscriptionum

Latinarum, band XV, Berlin 1899. The table mainly covers Roman types. It was made in a time when relatively few amphoras were known and could be dated. Today, many more have been found underwater. Despite this shortcoming, the table is still useful and serves as a basis for later improved classifications, e.g. by Nino Lamboglia and Ricardo Pascual. Form 1: 129 BC-13 BC Form 2: 16 BC-29 AD Form 3: 28 AD-146 AD Form 4: 4 BC-24 AD

Form 6: 36 AD (one known find) Form 8: 1st century AD Forms 1-6 are Roman wine amphoras. Forms 7-15 are south Spanish salt fish amphoras, except for # 12 which is Roman. Form 20: 2nd and 3rd centrury AD south Spanish oil amphora Form 5: 12 BC (one known find) Form 26 and 27: 3rd century and later All other forms are later and were not classified by Dressel.

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Related documents: l'Archologie sousmarine l'tude du commerce romain, Franoise Mayet Amphoras from Cap de Mdes wreck, 1st century BC, France Related links: The Amphoras project Abysso, Italy Les mfores oleries btiques Dressel 20 i Dressel 23, Pere Isquierdo i Tugas Literature: M Sciallano, P Sibella: Amphores comment les identifier? (Edisud) Lattara 6, (Lattes 1993)