Contessa Entellina (PA): Amphorae and ‘Romanization’ in inner western Sicily

Abstract

This contribution aims at a typological and archaeometric study (thin section petrography) of a set of transport amphorae of the early Hellenistic to late Republican period, retrieved in a survey inland in western Sicily. The set consists of amphorae of the MGS III, IV, V and VI types, and of the later Graecoitalic and Dressel 1 amphorae. We chose these amphora series because they constitute a quite homogeneous group, whose formal evolution may be followed from the ‘a quarto di cerchio’ amphorae to the Graeco-italic and Dressel 1.