Download Pdf of Dissertation - Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M ...

Not much is known about the third amphora neck from Punta Scifo A, which has
no diagnostic features preserved. The only possible parallel is a similar amphora found
during the excavation of the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore in Corinth, stratigraphically
dated to the first quarter of the third century A.D. 210
Pitchers (or Jugs), Sigillata Ware
Five fragments of trefoil-mouth containers, from the Punta Scifo A wreck site, are
also on display at the Nautical Museum of Capo Colonna. The bodies are not preserved,
and during an exhibition in 2006 it was not possible to take measurements of their neck
heights and mouth openings.
Their necks are short and straight, the rims curve outwards and have a thick,
raised band at the lower extremity. The most significant feature is the single vertical
handle rising above the rim and decorated with two vertical grooves, found on jugs and
pitchers from Corinth, Athens, and Ostia. 211 If these parallels are viable, they could
suggest a date range from the middle of the second century to the third century A.D.
Their production center has been tentatively assigned to the eastern Aegean or the Black
Sea. 212 Few conclusions can be drawn regarding the fragments of one terra sigillata plate
and two lids that are exhibited in Capo Colonna (MOB 6), except to say that these
fragments may testify to the presence of a galley on board the ship.
210 The amphora neck is similar to the type “Warner Slane 249.” (Warner Slane 1990, 116, fig. 249).
211 Corinth: see Warner Slane 1990, 100, n. 215-6; Athens: see Robinson 1959, 92, M 101, plates 23, 73;
Ostia: see Panella 1973, 203, 430, fig. 342.
212 Warner Slane 1990, 100, n. 14-5.
134