Bezeczky, Tamás; Scherrer, Peter; Sauer, Roman; Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut [Mitarb.]: The amphorae of Roman Ephesus (Forschungen in Ephesos, Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2013)

Type 30

123

Fabric: (analysed nos. 296 and 298)
Visual characteristics
Italian Fabric N, a fairly soft, smooth, very fine fabric. White, red, white and grey inclusions. Mica and
microfossils with a few limestone or white reaction rims are visible. The amphorae which have not been ana-
lysed petrologically show similar characteristics of fabric.

Petrology
Italian Fabric N
Samples: nos. 296 and 298
Matrix-. Light yellowish-greenish, strongly recrystallised, probably originally carbonate rich groundmass (over fired). Temper
grains are partially/completely destroyed due to high degree of firing and therefore difficult to estimate.
The temper grains consist of very frequent moulds of former carbonates, subordinate monocrystalline quartz, muscovite and
iron oxide concretions, moderate alkali feldspars, rare oxidized mica and carbonate grains, very rare polycrystalline quartz,
chert and foraminifers and traces of plagioclase, biotite and heavy minerals.
Visible temper content: approx. 9 %, maximum grain size: 0.28 mm, moderate sorting.
The heavy mineral assemblage (no. 296) consists of zircon (43%), rutile (19%), brookite/anatase (18%), disthene (7%), titanite
(4%), epidote/zoisite (3%), not identified grains (3%), chromium spinel (2%), sillimanite (1%) and traces of hornblende.
R.S.

Catalogue
Tetragonos Agora
293. Rim, neck fr., 89/019 (1339), Trench 89/2, D = 18 cm, V -
3 cm, HD = 3.9 cm, H = 7.8 cm, buff (7.5YR 7/4), SF:
buff (7.5YR 8/4), PLATES 26, 76
294. Base fr., 87/041 (1168), Trench 87/1, BD = 5 cm, H -
14.2 cm, buff (2.5Y 8/4), PLATES 26, 76
295. Neck fr, handle, 90/007 (1343), Trench 90/2, HD -
10.6 cm, H = 31.5 cm, S = 3.1x4.5 cm, buff (10YR 8/4-
7/4), PLATES 26, 76
296. Rim, neck fr., 89/007 (123), Trench 89/2, Stamp on
the rim: M.HER.PICEN., M. Her(enni) Picen[t](is), D
= 18 cm, V = 2.8 cm, HD = 5.5 cm, DN = 13 cm, H -
7.4 cm, buff (10YR 8/4), PLATES 27, 76
297. Rim, neck fr., 95/034 (1338), Trench 95/1, D = 18 cm,
V = 3.3 cm, HD = 5.4 cm, H = 7.6 cm, buff (10YR 7/4),
PLATES 27, 76
298. Rim, neck fr., 92/095 (1268), Trench 92/4, Stamp on
the rim: M.HER.PICENT, M. Her(enni) Picent(is), D -
17 cm, V = 2.9 cm, HD = 4.8 cm, H = 6.3 cm, buff (2.5Y
8/2), PLATES 27, 76
299. Neck, handle and body fr., 90/007, (1625-1626), Trench
90/2, Titulus pictus: AT (...) in ligature, H = 17.7 + 9 cm,
buff (very pale brown) (10YR 7/4), PLATES 27, 76

Terrace House 2
571. Rim, neck, handle, 99/254 (270), B9 Ost, 45c, D -
16.3 cm, V = 2.4 cm, HD = 4 cm, H = 16 cm, pale yellow
(2.5Y 8/4), PLATES 43, 89
Earlier excavations,
Terrace House 1
647. Rim, neck, handle, 84/024, Tab. V/2, Stamp on the neck,
D.L.F.PRI, D(...) L(„.) F(...) Pri(...), D = 15 cm, HD -
5 cm, DN =11.5 cm, H = 31 cm, S = 4.4 x 3.6 cm, buff
(7.5YR 7/4), PLATES 50, 94
Terrace House 2
648. Rim, neck, handles, 93/109, Room 46b, Trench 93/9 Stamp
on the neck ..../...NVMI, D= 16.8 cm, HD = 5 cm, DN -
10.8 cm, H = 38 cm, S = 5.3 x 4.4 cm, reddish yellow (5YR
7/6), SF: very pale brown (10YR 8/3), PLATES 50, 94
State Agora, Basilica Stoa
804. Rim, neck fr., Ki 50/1964, Sondage B2, N-Teil 33.55
m, Stamp on the rim: S.L.E.[F], D = 20 cm, V = 2.6 cm,
HD = 4.6 cm, H = 8.4 cm, very pale brown (10YR 8/4),
PLATES 53, 96
State Agora, Well
810. Body, base fr., Filling Bl, Stamp on the upper part of the
body: C.F.G, H = 73.5 cm, BD = cm, very pale brown
(10YR 7/4), PLATES 53, 96

The amphora published from Ephesus:
State Agora, Well: Meriq 2002, 92 K 522.