The ‘early production’ of Roman amphorae in Ulterior / Lusitania. State of play of a universe (still) under construction.

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Rui Roberto de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Fabião, Carlos
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/39706
• topic: Atlantic Hispania Ulterior; Lusitania; Late Republican; Early empire; ‘Early amphorae’ production; Ovoid types; Fachada atlântica da Hispania Ulterior; Lusitania; República tardia; Principado; Produção ‘Lusitana Antiga’; Tipos ovóides

The actual state of the knowledge concerning early types of Roman amphorae in the Atlantic Ulterior / Lusitania didn’t achieve such a level as other regions of Hispania. Nevertheless, in the last two decades the research developed in Portuguese territory started to demonstrate that also here, at the most Western area of the Roman Empire, the ‘ovoid amphorae’ represented the earliest forms of a regional/provincial repertoire of transport containers of Romanised morphology. At the same time, it`s becoming now more clear than ever that the amphorae produced in Western Ulterior/Lusitania at this initial stage have a strong ‘connection’ with known amphorae from Southern Hispania (namely with ovoid types from the Guadalquivir valley and the Cadiz bay), but also with the later early Imperial Guadalquivir Haltern 70 type and the Dressel 7-11 ‘family’ from the Cadiz potteries, with which they are usually related in terms of shape. With this paper we intend to present the main historiographic and background problematic, the main difficulties in dealing with the actual available fragmentary reality, the typological frame that can now be built and, above all, to where is the Lusitanian data and research leading us to.