Anfore adriatiche a Roma

The focus of this research is the study of the Adriatic amphorae found at the Nuovo Mercato Testaccio (Roma), with special regard to the morphological features, archaeometric characterization, epigraphic apparatus and commercial aspects and to the reuse of the containers. In proximity to the Monte dei Cocci and to the Tiber harbour (Emporium), the area was excavated between 2005 and 2010.

The Adriatic containers unearthed at the Nuovo Mercato Testaccio represent the most important discovery of this kind of amphorae in Rome, after the finds of the 2nd half of the XIX century at the Castro Pretorio, edited by H. Dressel in CIL XV, 2.