Neck and handle of an amphora
This is part of a large storage vessel called an ‘amphora’ used for transporting olive oil into Roman Exeter from Spain.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 98/1992
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- potteryDressel 20
- Common Name
- neck and handle of an amphora
- Simple Name
- amphora
- Period Classification
- Roman (43-410)