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Cosa: The Roman and Greek Amphoras

Elizabeth Lyding Will and Kathleen Warner Slane 2019
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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.

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Series
  • Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-13143-3 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-12561-6 (ebook)
Subject
  • Classical Studies:Roman
  • Archaeology
  • Classical Studies:Greek
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  • Cover
  • Title (page iii)
  • Copyright (page iv)
  • List of Illustrations (page vii)
  • Preface (page xi)
  • Introduction: Letty Will’s Cosa Catalogue (page 1)
  • Abbreviations and Other Information (page 5)
  • Catalogue of Roman Stamps and Amphoras (page 7)
    • Uncertain 3rd-Century B.C. Types (page 7)
    • Type 1 (Greco-Italic, Benghazi Hellenistic Amphora 7, Peacock and Williams Class 2) (page 7)
    • Type 1 or 2 (page 12)
    • Type 2 (Greco-Italic Type 1e) and Type 2a (page 13)
    • Type 4 (Dressel 1a and 1b) (page 14)
    • Type 5 (= Lamboglia’s Dressel 1c, Peacock and Williams Class 5) (page 43)
    • Type 7 (page 47)
    • Type 8 (page 47)
    • Type 10 (= Lamboglia 2, Baldacci IIb, Peacock and Williams Part of Class 8) (page 48)
    • Type 11a (= Brindisi Amphora, “Amphorae Calabrae,” Benghazi Hellenistic Amphora 8, Peacock and Williams Class 1) (page 50)
    • Type 12 (Dressel 2-4) (page 51)
    • Type 13 (page 54)
    • Type 14 (= Dressel 6, Peacock and Williams Class 8) (page 54)
    • Type 15 (= Funnel-mouth or Portorecanati Amphora?–KWS) (page 54)
    • Type 16 (Spanish Types) (page 55)
    • Type 17 (= Dressel 21, 22, Pompeii IV, Peacock and Williams Class 7) (page 64)
    • Type 18 (page 64)
    • Type 19 (page 68)
    • Type 20 (= Dressel 20, Dressel 23, Peacock and Williams Classes 25 and 26) (page 68)
    • Type 21 (African Types) (page 70)
    • Type 22 (page 85)
    • Type 23 (= “Ostia-type,” Tripolitana I-III) (page 86)
    • Types 24a and 24 (= Oberaden 74, Dressel 28, and Gauloise 3) (page 89)
    • Type EWC-U.XII = Late or Imperial Rhodian (= Peacock and Williams Class 9, Camulodunum 184) (page 90)
    • Other Middle and Late Imperial Amphoras (page 92)
    • Uncertain Types and Miscellaneous Pieces (page 95)
  • Conclusions (page 99)
  • Afterword (page 117)
  • Appendix 1: The Amphora Deposit South of the Capitolium (page 119)
  • Appendix 2: Greek Amphora Stamps from the Hill (page 139)
  • Appendix 3: Amphora Fragments Drawn in 1953 (page 157)
  • Bibliography (page 159)
  • Concordance of Inventory and Catalogue Numbers (page 167)
  • Cosa Hill: Alphabetical List of Roman Amphora Stamps and Other Marks (page 177)
  • Catalogued Amphoras, Arranged by Context (page 183)
  • Summaries of Published Cosa Deposits in Chronological Order (page 203)
  • Plans and Plates (page 214)
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