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Two forgotten amphorae from the Hamburg excavations at Carthage (Cyprus, and the Iberian Peninsula) and their contexts
Full text linkThe analysis of amphorae from Carthaginian settlement assemblages
No full textThis paper discusses the development of amphora studies in Carthage within the frame of
general Phoenician-Punic amphora studies. Building upon an approach applied by Babette
Bechtold and the present author, the amphora material within a stratigraphical sequence in the
Hamburg excavations, below the Decumanus Maximus in Carthage, is analysed. It is suggested
that the rise of local amphorae started already within the first quarter of the seventh century
BCE, earlier than previously thought. Also, the importance of contextual analysis of amphora
finds, and the inclusion of amphora wall sherds in such analyses, is advocated
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