Share the story of what Open Access means to you
University of Michigan needs your feedback to better understand how readers are using openly available ebooks. You can help by taking a short, privacy-friendly survey.
Cosa: The Roman and Greek Amphoras
Elizabeth Lyding Will and Kathleen Warner Slane
You don't have access to this book. Please try to log in with your institution.
Log in
This long-awaited volume presents the work of Elizabeth Lyding Will on the important group of transport amphoras found at Cosa. This town has been widely recognized as a prototypical colony of the later Roman Republic and a source for trade with Gaul and Spain, so this publication of its finds has important implications for archaeologists and historians of the ancient world. Will's initial work was on Latin amphora-stamps in the eastern Mediterranean, and through the 1960s and 1970s she developed an amphora typology based on materials found in the region and at Cosa. What has not been appreciated is that this typology was not limited to stamped Republican amphoras but also included unstamped vessels, such as imperial Spanish, African, and eastern amphoras dating as late as the fifth century CE. This book shows that Will was far ahead of her time in documenting the Mediterranean trade in commodities carried in amphoras: her work not only provides a record of the amphoras found on the town-site of Cosa, but also includes a comparison between the finds from the port and the town.
At the time of Will's death, her manuscript consisted of a typed catalogue of the amphora stamps from Cosa and an equal number of unstamped vessels, but was missing important elements. On the basis of extensive notes and photographs, Kathleen Warner Slane has reviewed and updated the manuscript, adding type descriptions and footnotes to materials that have appeared since Will's death as well as a framing introduction and conclusions. Appendices highlight an Augustan amphora dump on the Arx and add a catalogue of the Greek amphora stamps found at Cosa.
Cosa: The Roman and Greek Amphoras will be of interest to scholars and students of Rome and its system of colonies, and also to those interested in Greek and Roman archaeology and trade in the ancient world.
At the time of Will's death, her manuscript consisted of a typed catalogue of the amphora stamps from Cosa and an equal number of unstamped vessels, but was missing important elements. On the basis of extensive notes and photographs, Kathleen Warner Slane has reviewed and updated the manuscript, adding type descriptions and footnotes to materials that have appeared since Will's death as well as a framing introduction and conclusions. Appendices highlight an Augustan amphora dump on the Arx and add a catalogue of the Greek amphora stamps found at Cosa.
Cosa: The Roman and Greek Amphoras will be of interest to scholars and students of Rome and its system of colonies, and also to those interested in Greek and Roman archaeology and trade in the ancient world.
-
Contents
-
List of Illustrations
-
Preface: (R. T. Scott)
-
Introduction: Letty Will’s Cosa Catalogue (Kathleen Warner Slane)
-
Abbreviations and Other Information
-
Catalogue of Roman Stamps and Amphoras (Elizabeth Lyding Will, with notes and type descriptions by KWS)
-
Uncertain 3rd-Century b.c. Types
-
Type 1 (Greco-Italic, Benghazi Hellenistic Amphora 7, Peacock and Williams Class 2)
-
Type 1 or 2
-
Type 2 (Greco-Italic Type 1e) and Type 2a
-
Type 4 (Dressel 1a and 1b)
-
Type 5 (= Lamboglia’s Dressel 1c, Peacock and Williams Class 5)
-
Type 7
-
Type 8
-
Type 10 (= Lamboglia 2, Baldacci IIb, Peacock and Williams Part of Class 8)
-
Type 11a (= Brindisi Amphora, “Amphorae Calabrae,” Benghazi Hellenistic Amphora 8, Peacock and Williams Class 1)
-
Type 12 (Dressel 2–4)
-
Type 13
-
Type 14 (= Dressel 6, Peacock and Williams Class 8)
-
Type 15 (= Funnel-mouth or Portorecanati Amphora?—KWS)
-
Type 16 (Spanish Types)
-
Type 17 (= Dressel 21, 22, Pompeii IV, Peacock and Williams Class 7)
-
Type 18
-
Type 19
-
Type 20 (= Dressel 20, Dressel 23, Peacock and Williams Classes 25 and 26)
-
Type 21 (African Types)
-
Type 22
-
Type 23 (= “Ostia-type,” Tripolitana I–III)
-
Types 24a and 24 (= Oberaden 74, Dressel 28, and Gauloise 3)
-
Type EWC-U.XII = Late or Imperial Rhodian (= Peacock and Williams Class 9, Camulodunum 184)
-
Other Middle and Late Imperial Amphoras
-
Uncertain Types and Miscellaneous Pieces
-
-
Conclusions (Kathleen Warner Slane)
-
Afterword (R. T. Scott)
-
Appendix 1: The Amphora Deposit South of the Capitolium (Kathleen Warner Slane)
-
Appendix 2: Greek Amphora Stamps from the Hill (compiled and edited by Kathleen Warner Slane)
-
Appendix 3: Amphora Fragments Drawn in 1953
-
Bibliography
-
Concordance of Inventory and Catalogue Numbers
-
Cosa Hill: Alphabetical List of Roman Amphora Stamps and Other Marks
-
Catalogued Amphoras, Arranged by Context
-
Summaries of Published Cosa Deposits in Chronological Order
-
Plans and Plates
Citable Link
Published: 2019
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-13143-3 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-12561-6 (ebook)