[Ansteorra] Amphorae

[Anthony N. Emmel]

Chello!
  

ansteorra-request at lists.ansteorra.org wrote:
    Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:56:16 -0500
From: Stefan li Rous 
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] "Period Containers"
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." 
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 But it is a good point that 
amphora were used some past Classical times for transporting wine. 
That site seems to give 6th century as the latest, and even then only 
in the eastern Mediterranean. Not sure why the use of amphora seems 
to have dropped off in the beginning of medieval times, unless it has 
to do with the general demise of civilization and trade.

  Ward-Perkins in his book The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization uses the evidence in arachaelogical digs of pottery, inclusding amphorae, as a clue to the breakdown in trade and production after the fall of Rome.  Intersting study.
   
  http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Rome-End-Civilization/dp/0192807285/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206812096&sr=1-1
   
  Bernhard von Bruck
  Rosenfeld


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