EARLY ITALIAN AMPHORAE FROM THE EPHESIAN AGORA

Tamás Bezeczky

The excavations in the agora in Ephesus have unearthed more than ten thousand amphora fragments from the Roman period. The appearance of Italians in Ephesus may have been related to the importation of Republican and early Roman Imperial amphorae. There are many amphorae from Apulia (Brindisi type), Campania (Dressel 1, Dressel 21-22 and Dressel 2-4) and the region of Adria (Lamboglia 2 and Dressel 6A) present in the archaeological record of Ephesus. Stone inscriptions and amphora stamps mention some Italian merchants (Agrius and Gerillanus) and workshop owners (Visellius, Betilienus, Curtius Postumus and M. Herennius Picens) in Ephesus.

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