RACAMed

Publications related to the RACAMed project

Conference

Botte, E. and Leitch, V. (eds.) 2014, Fish & Ships, Production and commerce of salsamenta during Antiquity, Actes de l’atelier doctoral, Rome (2012), Centre Camille Jullian, Bibliothèque d’Archéologie Méditerranéenne et Africaine (BIAMA) 17, Arles-Aix-en-Provence (Errance): 175-196.

García Vargas, E., de Almeida, R.R., González Cesteros, H. and Sáez Romero, E. (eds.) 2019, The Ovoid Amphorae in the Central and Western Mediterranean. Between the last two centuries of the Republic and the early days of the Roman Empire, RLAMP 13, Oxford (Archeopress). 

Oliveira, C., Morais, R. and Morillo Cerdán, Á. (eds.) 2015, ArchaeoAnalytics. Chromatography and DNA analysis in archaeology, Esposende (Braga).

Bernal-Casasola, D., Bonifay, M., Pecci, A. and Leitch, L. (eds.) 2021, Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity. In Honour of Miguel Beltrán Lloris. Proceedings of the Roman Amphora Contents International Interactive Conference (RACIIC) (Cadiz, 5-7 October 2015), RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress).

Websites of interest

Roman Amphorae: a Digital Resource (University of Southampton) https://doi.org/10.5284/1028192  

https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/amphora_ahrb_2005/

Amphorae ex Hispania (ICAC, Tarragona) https://amphorae.icac.cat

Strauss, J. 2013, Shipwrecks Database. http://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/databases/shipwrecks_database/

Methodology

Beck, C.W. and Borromeo, C. 1990, ‘Ancient pine pitch: Technological perspectives from a Hellenistic shipwreck’, MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology 7: 51–85.

Beck, C.W., Smart, C.J. and Ossenkop, D.J. 1989, ‘Residues and linings in ancient Mediterranean transport amphoras’, Archaeological Chemistry IV, chapter 20: 369–380. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC.

Beck, C.W., Stout, E.C., Lee, K., Todtenhaupt, D. and Kurzweil, A. 2002, ‘Ancient pine tar technology: Correlations between manufacturing methods and composition’, in E. Jerem, K. Biro and E. Rudner (eds.), Archaeometry 98: Proceedings of the 31st Symposium, Budapest, April 26-May 3, 1998 (2), Oxford (Archaeopress): 179–184.

Boulton, N. and Heron, C. 2000, ‘Chemical detection of ancient wine’, in P.T. Nicholson and I. Shaw (eds.), Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press): 599-603.

Brown, L. D. and Heron, C. 2005, ‘Presence or absence: A preliminary study into the detection of fish oils in ceramics’, in J. Mullville and A.K. Outram (eds.), The 9th ICAZ Conference, Durham 2002: The Zooarchaeology of Fats, Oils, Milk and Dairying, Oxford (Oxbow): 67–76.

Charters, S., Evershed, R.P., Goad, L.J., Leyden, A., Blinkhorn, P.W. and Denham, V. 1993, ‘Quantification and distribution of lipid in archaeological ceramics: implications for sampling potsherds for organic residue analysis and the classification of vessel use’, Archaeometry 35: 211–223.

Charters, S., Evershed, R.P., Quye, A., Blinkhorn, P.W. and Reeves, V. 1997, ‘Simulation experiments for determining the use of ancient pottery vessels: the behaviour of epicuticular leaf wax during boiling of a leafy vegetable’, Journal of Archaeological Science 24: 1–7.

Colombini, M.P., Giachi, G., Modugno, F. and Ribechini, E. 2005, ‘Characterisation of organic residues in pottery vessels of the Roman age from Antinoe (Egypt)’, Microchemistry Journal 79: 83–90.

Colombini, M.P., Modugno, F. and Ribechini, E. 2005a, ‘Direct Exposure Electron Ionization Mass Spectrometry and Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Techniques to Study Organic Coatings on Archaeological Amphorae’, Journal of Mass Spectrometry 40 (5): 675–687.

Colombini, M.P., Modugno, F. and Ribechini, E. 2005b, ‘Organic mass spectrometry in archaeology: Evidence for brassicaceae seed oil in Egyptian ceramic lamps’, Journal of Mass Spectrometry 40 (7): 890–898.

Condamin, J. and Formenti, F. 1978, ‘Détection du contenu d’amphores antiques (huiles, vin) étude méthodologique’, Revue d’Archéométrie 2: 43–58.

Condamin, J., Formenti, F., Metais, M. O., Michel, M. and Blond, P. 1976, ‘The application of gas chromatography to the tracing of oil in ancient amphorae’, Archaeometry 18 (2): 195–201.

Correa-Ascencio, M. and Evershed, R.P. 2014, ‘High throughput screening of organic residues in archaeological potsherds using direct acidified methanol extraction’, Analytical Methods 6 (5): 1330–1340.

Cramp, L.J.E. 2008, Foodways and Identity: Organic residue analysis of Roman mortaria and other pottery, PhD Thesis, University of Reading.

Dallongeville, S., Garnier, N., Casasola, D.B., Bonifay, M., Rolando, C., and Tokarski, C. 2011, ‘Dealing with the identification of protein species in ancient amphorae’, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 399 (9): 3053–63.

Diraman, H. and Dibeklioglu, H. 2009, ‘Chemometric characterization and classification of selected freshwater and marine fishes from Turkey based on their fatty acid profiles’, Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society 86 (3): 235–246.

Evershed, R.P. 1993, ‘Biomolecular archaeology and lipids’, World Archaeology 25 (1): 74-93.

Evershed, R.P. 2008, ‘Experimental approaches to the interpretation of absorbed organic residues in archaeological ceramics’, World Archaeology 40 (1): 26–47.

Evershed, R.P., Arnot, K.I., Collister, J., Eglinton, G. and Charters, S. 1994, ‘Application of Isotope Ratio Monitoring Gas-Chromatography Mass-Spectrometry to the Analysis of Organic Residues of Archaeological Origin’, Analyst 119: 909–914. https://doi.org/10.1039/an9941900909

Evershed, R.P., Charters, S. and Quye, A. 1995, ‘Interpreting lipid residues in archaeological ceramics: Preliminary results from laboratory simulations of vessel use and burial’, in P.B. Vandiver , J.R. Druzik, J.L.G. Madrid, I.C. Freestone and G.S. Wheeler (eds.), Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology IV, Pittsburg, PA (Materials Research Society): 85–95.

Evershed, R.P., Copley, M.S., Dickson, L. and Hansel, F.A. 2008, ‘Experimental evidence for the processing of marine animal products and other commodities containing polyunsaturated fatty acids in pottery vessels’, Archaeometry 50: 101-113.

Evershed, R.P., Dudd, S.N., Lockheart, M.J. and Jim, S. 2001, ‘Lipids in Archaeology’, in D.R. Brothwell and A.M. Pollard (eds.), Handbook of Archaeological Sciences, London (John Wiley & Sons Ltd): 331–349.

Evershed, R.P., Goad, L.J., Heron, C. and Goad, L.J. 1990, ‘Analysis of organic residues of archaeological origin by high-temperature gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectometry’, Analyst 115: 1339–1342.

Facchetti, F., Ribechini, E., Betrò, M. and Colombini, M.P. 2012, ‘Organic residues analysis: The case of a beaker found in a Theban Necropolis, Egypt’, International Journal of Conservation Science 3 (4): 259–264.

Foley, B.P., Hansson, M.C., Kourkoumelis, D.P. and Theodoulou, T.A. 2012, ‘Aspects of ancient Greek trade re-evaluated with amphora DNA evidence’, Journal of Archaeological Science 39 (2): 389–398.

Font, J., Salvadó, N., Butí, S. and Enrich, J. 2007, ‘Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy as a suitable technique in the study of the materials used in waterproofing of archaeological amphorae’, Analytica Chimica Acta 598 (1): 119–127.

Garnier, N. 2003, Analyse structurale de matériaux organiques conservés dans des céramiques antiques. Apports de la chromatographie et de la spectrométrie de masse, Doctoral Thesis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI).

Garnier, N. 2007a, ‘Analyse de résidus organiques conservés dans des amphores: un état de la question’, in M. Bonifay and J.-C. Tréglia (eds.), LRCW2. Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry, BAR International Series, 1662, Oxford (Archaeopress): 39–58.

Garnier, N. 2007b, ‘Analyse du contenu d’amphores africaines’, in E. Papi (ed.), Supplying Rome and the Empire, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 69, Portsmouth, RI: 25–31.

Garnier, N. 2015, ‘Méthodologies d’analyse chimique organique en archéologie’, in C. Oliveira, R. Morais and Á. Morillo Cerdán (eds.), ArchaeoAnalytics. Chromatography and DNA analysis in archaeology, Esposende (Braga): 13–39.

Garnier, N. 2021, ‘Amphorae and residue analysis: theoretical considerations’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 95–111.

Garnier, N., Bernal-Casasola, D., Driard, C. and Vaz Pinto, I. 2018, ‘Looking for Ancient Fish Products through invisible Biomolecular Residues in the Roman production vats from the Atlantic Coast’, Journal of Maritime Archaeology 13 (3): 285–328. DOI 10.1007/s11457-018-9219-x

Garnier, N., Silvino, T. and Bernal-Casasola, D. 2009, ‘L’identification du contenu des amphores: huile, conserves de poissons et poissage’, SFECAG (Arles, June 2011): 397–416.

Garnier, N. and Pecci, A. 2021, ‘Amphorae and residue analysis: content of amphorae and organic coatings’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 113–125.

Gregg, M.W. and Slater, G.F. 2010, ‘A new method for extraction, isolation and transesterification of free fatty acids from archaeological pottery’, Archaeometry 52 (5): 833–854.

Guasch-Jané, M.R., Andrés-Lacueva, C., Jáuregui, O. and Lamuela-Raventós, R.M. 2006, ‘First evidence of white wine in ancient Egypt from Tutankhamun’s tomb’, Journal of Archaeological Science 33 (8): 1075–1080.

Guasch-Jané, M.R., Ibern-Gómez, M., Andrés-Lacueva, C., Jáuregui, O. and Lamuela Raventós, R.M. 2004, ‘Liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry in tandem mode applied for the identification of wine markers in residues from ancient Egyptian vessels’, Analytical Chemistry 76 (6): 1672–1677.

Gutiérrez, A., del Río, J., González-Vila, F.J. and Martín, F. 1998, ‘Analysis of lipophilic extractives from wood and pitch deposits by solid-phase extraction and gas chromatography’, Journal of Chromatography A 823: 449–455.

Hammann, S., Cramp, L.J.E., Whittle, M. and Evershed, R.P. 2018, ‘Cholesterol Degradation in Archaeological Pottery Mediated by Fired Clay and Fatty Acid Pro-Oxidants’, Tetrahedron Letters 59: 4401–4404.

Hansel, F., Copley, M., Madureira, L. and Evershed, R. 2004, ‘Thermally produced ω- (o-alkylphenyl) alkanoic acids provide evidence for the processing of marine products in archaeological pottery vessels’, Tetrahedron Letters 45 (14): 2999–3002.

Heron, C.P. 1989, The Analysis of Organic Residues from Archaeological Ceramics, PhD Thesis, University of Wales.

Heron, C. and Pollard, A.M. 1988, ‘The analysis of natural resinous materials from Roman amphorae’, in E.A. Slater and J.O. Tate (eds.), Science and Archaeology, Glasgow 1987, BAR British Series 196, Oxford (British Archaeological Reports): 429–448.

Linke, R., Stanek, S., Lochner-Metaxas, S. and Rosenberg, E. 2008, ‘Development of fast derivatisation procedures for the chemical investigation of organic residues in early Byzantine transport containers from Ephesos/Turkey’, in Y. Facorellis, N. Zacharias and L. Polikreti (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry: National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, 28-31 May 2003, Oxford (Archaeopress): 631–638.

Pecci, A., Borgna, S., Mileto, S., Dalla Longa, E., Bosi, G., Florenzano, A., Mercuri, A.M., Corazza, S., Marchesini, M. and Vidale, M. 2020, ‘Wine Consumption in Bronze Age Northeastern Italy: Combining Organic Residue Analysis, Botanical Data and Ceramic Variability’, Journal of Archaeological Science 123: 105256-1-12.

Pecci, A. and Cau Ontiveros, M.Á. 2010, ‘Análisis de residuos orgánicos en ánforas: el problema de la resina y el aceite’, in J.M. Blázquez Martínez and J. Remesal Rodríguez (eds.), Estudios sobre el Monte Testaccio (Roma) V, Col.lecció Instrumenta 35, Barcelona: 593–600. 

Pecci, A., Cau Ontiveros, M.Á. and Garnier, N. 2013, ‘Identifying Wine and Oil Production: Analysis of Residues from Roman and Late Antique Plastered Vats’, Journal of Archaeological Science 40: 4491–4498.

Pecci, A., Dominguez-Bella, S., Buonincontri, M., Miriello, D., De Luca, R., Di Pasquale, G., Cottica, D. and Bernal-Casasola, D. 2018, ‘Combining Residue Analysis of Floors and Ceramics for the Study of Activity Areas at the Garum Shop in Pompeii’, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 10: 485–502.

Pecci, A., Giorgi, G., Salvini, L. and Cau Ontiveros, M. Á. 2013, ‘Identifying Wine Markers in Ceramics and Plasters Using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry’, Experimental and Archaeological Materials, Journal of Archaeological Science 40 (1): 109–115.

Regert, M., Colinart, S., Degrand, L. and Decavallas, O. 2001, ‘Chemical alteration and use of beeswax through time: Accelerated ageing tests and analysis of archaeological samples from various environmental contexts’, Archaeometry 43 (4): 549–569.

Reiter, B. and Lorbeer, E. 2001, ‘Analysis of the wax ester fraction of olive oil and sunflower oil by gas chromatography and gas chromatographymass spectrometry’, Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society, 78 (9): 881–888.

Rodríguez-Alcantara, Á. et al. 2021, ‘Making Garum. Experimental archaeology methods’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 171–177.

Romanus. K. et al. 2009, ‘Wine and olive oil permeation in pitched and non-pitched ceramics: relation with results from archaeological amphorae from Sagalassos, Turkey’, Journal of Archaeological Science 36: 900-909.

Rothschild-Boros, M.C. 1981, ‘The determination of amphora contents’, Archaeology and Italian Society: Prehistoric, Roman and Medieval Studies, BAR International Series 102, Oxford (British Archaeological Reports): 79–89.

Stern, B., Heron, C., Serpico, M. and Bourriau, J. 2000, ‘A comparison of methods for establishing fatty acid concentration gradients across potsherds: A case study using late Bronze Age Canaanite amphorae’, Archaeometry 42 (2): 399–414.

Stern, B., Lampert Moore, C.D., Heron, C. and Pollard, A. M. 2008, ‘Bulk stable light isotopic ratios in recent and archaeological resins: Towards detecting the transport of resins in Antiquity?’, Archaeometry 50 (2): 351–370.

Van Ham-Meert, A. 2016, Supercritical fluid extraction of organics from ceramics, Msc, University of Oxford.

Organic residues analysis case studies

Bernal-Casasola, D., Cottica, D., Marlasca, R., Rodríguez Santana, C.G. and García Vargas, E. 2021, ‘Dressel 21-22 Italic amphorae for fish: the archaeozoological confirmation from the garum shop at Pompeii’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 437–452.

Bernal-Casasola, D., Díaz, J.J., Expósito J.A. and Palacios V. (eds.) 2020, Baelo Claudia y los secretos del Garum. Atunes, ballenas, ostras, sardinas y otros recursos marinos en la cadena operativa haliéutica romana, Cádiz (Editorial UCA).

Bernal-Casasola, D., Expósito, J.A. and Palacios, V. 2018, ‘The Baelo Claudia Paradigm: The Exploitation of Marine Resources in Roman Cetariae’, Journal of Maritime Archaeology 13.3: 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-018-9209-z

Bernal-Casasola, D., Marlasca, R., Rodríguez Santana, C.G., Ruiz-Zapata, B., Gil, M.J., García Vargas, E. and Alba, M. 2015, ‘Garum de sardinas en Augusta Emerita. Caracterización arqueológica, epigráfica, ictiológica y palinológica del contenido de un ánfora Beltrán IIB’, Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum Acta 44: 737–749.

Bernal-Casasola, D., Pecci, A. and Saéz Romero, M. 2019, ‘Preliminary organic residue analysis of Ovoid 1 and Ovoid 5 amphorae from the Guadalquivir valley’. In García Vargas et al. (eds.), The Ovoid Amphorae in the Central and Western Mediterranean. Between the last two centuries of the Republic and the early days of the Roman Empire, RLAMP 13, Oxford (Archaeopress): 391–402.

Bernal-Casasola, D.,  Petit, M.D. 1999, ‘Análisis químico de resinas en ánforas romanas de vino y salazones de pescado. Problemática y  resultados’, I Congreso Nacional de Arqueometría – Segunda Reunión de Arqueometría (Granada, 1995), Arqueometría y Arqueología, Granada: 269–294.

Bonifay 2007, avec une annexe de N. Garnier, ‘Que transportaient donc les amphores africaines ?’, in E. Papi (ed.), Supplying Rome and the Empire, JRA Supplementary Series 69, Portsmouth, R.I: 9–31.

Cau Ontiveros, M.Á., Martínez Farreras, V., Pecci, A., Mas Florit, C. and Fantuzzi, L. 2018, ‘Archaeometric analysis for provenance and content of Roman amphorae from the site of Sa Mesquida (Mallorca, Spain)’, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 18: 87–105.

Dias, M.I. and Prudêncio, M.I. 2016, ‘Geochemical Fingerprints of Lusitanian Amphora Production Centres: Tagus, Sado, Algarve and Peniche’, in I. Vaz Pinto, R.R. De Almeida and A. Martin (eds.), Lusitanian Amphorae: Production and Distribution, RLAMP 10: 95–103.

Formenti, F., Hesnard, A. and Tchernia, A. 1978, ‘Une amphore “Lamboglia 2” contenant du vin dans l’épave de la Madrague de Giens’, Archaeonautica 2: 95–100.

Gabriel, S. and Tavares da Silva 2016, ‘Fish bones and amphorae: New Evidence for the Production and Trade of Fish Products in Setúbal (Portigual)’, in I. Vaz Pinto, R.R. De Almeida and A. Martin (eds.), Lusitanian Amphorae: Production and Distribution, RLAMP 10: 111–116.

Garnier, N., Bernal-Casasola, D., Driard, C. and Vaz Pinto, I. 2018, ‘Looking for Ancient Fish Products through invisible Biomolecular Residues in the Roman production vats from the Atlantic Coast’, Journal of Maritime Archaeology 13.3: 285–328. DOI 10.1007/s11457-018-9219-x

Garnier, N. and Olcese, G. 2021 ‘The contents of ancient Graeco-Italic amphorae. First analyses on the amphorae of the filicudi F and Secca di Capistello wrecks (Aeolian Islands, Sicily)’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 141–148.

Modugno, F., Ribechini, E., and Colombini, M.P. 2006, ‘Aromatic resin characterisation by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Raw and archaeological materials’, Journal of Chromatography A 1134 (1-2): 298–304.

Morais, R., Oliveira, C. and Araújo, A. 2015, ‘Application of gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry to the analysis of ceramic containers of the Roman period. Evidence from the peninsular northwest’, in C. Oliveira, R. Morais and À. Morillo Cerdán, ArchaeoAnalytics. Chromatography and DNA analysis in archaeology, Esposende (Braga): 193–212.

Morais, R., Oliveira, C. and Araújo, A. 2016, ‘Lusitanian Amphorae of the Augustan Age and their Contents: Organic Residues Analysis’, in I. Vaz Pinto, R.R. De Almeida and A. Martin (eds.), Lusitanian Amphorae: Production and Distribution, RLAMP 10: 105-109.

Mottram, H.R., Dudd, S.N., Lawrence, G.J., Stott, A.W. and Evershed, R.P. 1999, ‘New chromatographic, mass spectrometric and stable isotope approaches to the classification of degraded animal fats preserved in archaeological pottery’, Journal of Chromatography A 833: 209–221.

Notarstefano, F. and Lettieri, M. 2021, ‘Residue analysis by GC-MS and FT-IR Spectroscopy on Roman amphorae from the archaeological site ‘Nuovo Mercato Testaccio’ (Rome)’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 133–140.

Oliveira, C., Morais, R. and Araújo, A. 2015, ‘Application of gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry to the analysis of ceramic containers of the Roman Period: Evidence from the Peninsular Northwest’. In C. Oliveira, R. Morais and À. Morillo Cerdán, ArchaeoAnalytics. Chromatography and DNA analysis in archaeology, Esposende (Braga): 193–212.

Passi, S., Rothschild-Boros, M.C., Fasella, P., Nazzaro-Porro, M. and Whitehouse, D. 1981, ‘An application of high performance liquid chromatography to analysis of lipids in archaeological samples’, Journal of Lipid Research 22: 778–784.

Pecci, A. 2005, Per uno studio funzionale di pavimenti e ceramiche, PhD Thesis, Università degli Studi di Siena.

Pecci, A. 2018, ‘Analisi dei residui organici e anfore medievali’, Archeologia Medievale 45: 275–280.

Pecci, A. and Cau Ontiveros, M.Á. 2014, ‘Análisis de residuos orgánicos en algunas ánforas del Monte Testaccio (Roma)’, in J.M. Blázquez Martínez and J. Remesal Rodríguez (eds.), Estudios sobre el Monte Testaccio (Roma) VI, Col.lecció Instrumenta 47, Barcelona: 601–613.

Pecci, A., Clarke, J., Thomas, M., Muslin, J., van der Graaff, I, Toniolo, L., Miriello, D, Crisci, G.M., Buonincontri, M. and Di Pasquale, G. 2017, ‘Use and reuse of amphorae. Wine residues in Dressel 2-4 amphorae from Oplontis Villa B (Torre Annunziata, Italy)’, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 12: 515–521.

Pecci, A., Contino, A., Mileto, S., Capelli, C., Toniolo, L and Reynolds, P. 2021, ‘Anfore africane antiche a Pompei: uso e riuso in base all’analisi dei contenuti’, Rivista di Studi Pompeani XXXII: 87–102.

Pecci, A., Mileto, S., Bernal-Casasola, D., Vargas Girón, J.M., Contino, A., Ripoll, G. and Reynolds, P. forthcoming, ‘Preliminary results of the project Roman amphorae and content analysis (RACA-Med I and II)’, 43rd International Symposium on Archaeometry, Lisbon, 16-20th May 2022 (poster).

Pecci, A. Reynolds, P., Mileto, S., Vargas Girón, J.M. and Bernal-Casasola, D. 2020, ‘Production and transport of goods in the Roman period: residue analysis and wine derivatives in late Republican Baetican ovoid amphorae’, Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Palaeoecology 2020 (online): 1–13.

Pecci, A., Salvini, L, Cirelli, E. and Augenti, A. 2010, ‘Castor oil at Classe (Ravenna – Italy): residue analysis of some late Roman amphorae coming from the port’, in S. Menchelli, S. Santoro, M. Pasquinucci and G. Guiducci (eds), LRCW 3. Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and archaeometry, BAR International Series 2185, Oxford (Archaeopress): 617–622.

Petit-Domínguez, M.D., García-Giménez, R. and Rucandio, M.I. 2003, ‘Chemical characterization of Iberian amphorae and tannin determination as indicative of amphora contents’, Microchimica Acta 141 (1-2): 63–68.

Piquès, G., Rovira, N., Tillier, M., Cibecchini, F., Djaoui, D. and De Juan, C. 2021, ‘New data, new questions on the paleo-contents studies of Roman jars and amphorae in underwater contexts: salsamenta, garum, lymphatum and other fish products’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 419–436.

Shackley, M. 1982, ‘Gas chromatographic identification of a resinous deposit from a 6th century storage jar and its possible identification’, Journal of Archaeological Science 9(3): 305–306.

Quevedo, A., Sternberg, M. and Hernández García, J.D. 2021, ‘The fish-salting production centre of Águila: late Roman amphora content analysis’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 409–417.

Romanus, K., Baeten, J., Poblome, J., Accardo, S., Degryse, P., Jacobs, P., Devos, D. and Waelkens, M. 2009, ‘Wine and olive oil permeation in pitched and non-pitched ceramics: Relation with results from archaeological amphorae from Sagalassos, Turkey’, Journal of Archaeological Science 36(3): 900–909.

Salvini, L., Pecci, A., Papi, E. and Cerri, L. 2007, ‘Analisi dei residui organici assorbiti in due anfore romane (Thamusida, Marocco): GC-MS ed ESI-MS’. In C. D’Amico (ed.), Atti del IV Congresso Nazionale AIAR, Pisa, 1-3 Febbraio 2006, Bologna (Patron Editore): 741-749.

Stern, B., Heron, C., Tellefsen, T. and Serpico, M. 2008, ‘New investigations into the Uluburun resin cargo’, Journal of Archaeological Science 35(8): 2188–2203.

Woodworth, M. unpublished 2011, Organic residue analysis of Beirut amphorae by chemical analytical techniques, MA Thesis, Dept. of History and Archaeology, University of Beirut.

Woodworth, M. 2017, Absorbed organic residue analysis of amphorae from the Black Sea region (3rd to 6th c. AD): analyses and methodological considerations, Unpublished PhD Thesis, St Catherine’s College, Oxford.

Woodworth, M., Baeten, J., Bernal, D., Bonifay, M., De Vos, D., Garnier, N., Keay, S., Pecci, A., Poblome, J., Pollard, M., Richez, F. and Wilson, A. 2015, ‘The content of African Keay 25/Africana 3 amphorae: the initial results of the CORONAM Project’, in C. Oliveira, R. Morais and Á. Morillo Cerdán, ArchaeoAnalytics. Chromatography and DNA analysis in archaeology, Esposende (Braga): 36–50.

Woodworth, M. and Reynolds, P. 2021, ‘The Beirut amphora: residue analysis and contents’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 161–169.

Amphora Contents: Archaeometric and other evidence

Bernal-Casasola, D., Cottica, D., García-Vargas, E., Toniolo, L., Gloria-Rodríguez-Santana, C.G., Acqua, C., Marlasca, R., Saéz, A.M., Vargas, J.M., Scremin, F. and Landi, S. 2014, ‘Un contexto excepcional en Pompeya: la pila de ánforas de la Bottega del Garum (I, 12, 8). Avance de un estudio interdisciplinar’, Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum Acta 43 (Catania 2012), Bonn: 219–232.

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Doonan, O. 2002, ‘Production in a Pontic Landscape: The Hinterland of Greek and Roman Sinope’, in M. Faudot, A, Fraysse and É. Geny (eds.), Pont-Euxin et commerce : la genèse de la “route de la soie”, Actes du IXe Symposium de Vani (Colchide, 1999), Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Antiquité, Collection « ISTA » 853, Besançon (Presses Universitaires FranComtoises): 185–198.

Doonan, O. 2004, ‘An Industrial Hinterland’, in Sinop Landscapes: Exploring Connection in a Black Sea Hinterland, Philadelphia, PA (University of Pennsylvania-Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology): 93–117.

Højte, J.M. 2005, ‘The archaeological evidence for fish processing in the Black Sea region’, in T. Bekker-Nielsen (ed.), Ancient Fishing and Fish Processing in the Black Sea Region, Aarhus (Aarhus University Press): 133–160.

Koutsouflakis, G. 2021, ‘‘De profundis’: three amphorae of unorthodox contents retrieved from the Aegean Sea’ in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 473–483.

Lund, J. and Gabrielsen, V. 2005, ‘A fishy business: transport amphorae of the Black Sea region as a source for the trade in fish and fish products in the Classical and Hellenistic periods’, in T. Bekker-Nielsen (ed.), Ancient Fishing and Fish Processing in the Black Sea Region, Aarhus (Aarhus University Press): 161–169.

Polla, S. et al. 2021, ‘Inland trade and consumption in context. A case study on the organic residue analysis of transport amphorae from the Balkan Peninsula (Yambol Distruct, south-eastern Bulgaria)’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 149–160. (LRA 2; Opaiţ B/Kuzmanov XIV sub-variant 1).

Sáez Romero, A.M. and Theodooropoulou, T. 2021,’Salting and consuming fish in the Classical Mediterranean. A review of the archaeological evidence from the Punic Amphora Building (Corinth, Greece)’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 485–497.

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Silvino, T. and Poux, M. avec la collaboration de N. Garnier, 2005, ‘Où est passé le vin de bétique ? Nouvelles données sur le contenu des amphores dites « à sauces de poisson et à saumures » de types Dressel 7/11, Pompéi VII, Beltrán II (Ier s. av. J.-C.-IIe s. apr. J.-C.)’, in SFECAG, Actes du Congrès de Blois: 501–514.

Van Neer, W., Ervynck, A. and Monsieur, P. 2010, ‘Fish bones and amphorae: evidence for the production and consumption of salted fish products outside the Mediterranean region’, Journal of Roman Arcaheology 23: 161–195.

Amphora Typologies and Epigraphy

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Bernal-Casasola, D., García Vargas, E., Sáez Romero, A.M. and González Cesteros, H. 2021, ‘Amphora contents in Baetica from the Punic tradition to Late Roman times’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 215–240.

Berni, P. and Botte, E. 2021, ‘Tituli picti on Spanish amphorae’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 241–248.

Bezeczky, T. 2021, ‘Ephesus wines’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 377–387.

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Blázquez Martínez, J.M. and Remesal Rodríguez, J. (eds.) 2007, Estudios sobre el Monte Testaccio (Roma) IV, Col.lecció Instrumenta 24, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona.

Bonifay, M., Botte, E., Capelli, C., Contino, A., Djaoui, D., Panella, C. and Tchernia, . 2015, ‘Nouvelles hypothèses sur l’origine et le contenu des amphores africaines Ostia LIX et XXIII’, Antiquités Africaines 51: 189–210.

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Djaoui, D. 2016, ‘Les amphores de type Haltern 70 : olives ou defrutum ? Et que faire des tituli picti concernant la sapa, le mulsum, la muria et l’hallex?’ , in D. Djaoui (ed.), Histoires matérielles : terre cuite, bois, métal et autres objets Des pots et des potes : Mélanges offerts à Lucien Rivet, Archéologie et Histoire Romaine 33, Autun: 489–-512.

Djaoui, D. 2016, ‘The Myth of ‘Laccatum’: a Study Starting from a New Titulus on a Lusitanian Dressel 14’, in I. Vaz Pinto, R.R. De Almeida and A. Martin (eds.), Lusitanian Amphorae: Production and Distribution, RLAMP 10: 117-127.

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Ehmig, U. 2009, ‘Tituli picti auf Amphoren in Köln II’, Kölner Jahrbuch 42: 393–445.

Fournet, J.-L. 2021, ‘How late antique dipinti contribute to a better knowledge of amphora contents’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 63-76.

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García Vargas, E. 2021, ‘Amphora contents as commodities; the structure and function of tituli picti in the western Mediterranean in the 1st century AD’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 51–62.

García Vargas, E., de Almeida, R.R., González Cesteros, H. and Sáez Romero, E. (eds.), 2019, The Ovoid Amphorae in the Central and Western Mediterranean. Between the last two centuries of the Republic and the early days of the Roman Empire, RLAMP 13, Oxford (Archaeoporess).

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Járrega Domínguez, R. and Ribera i Lacomba, A. 2021, ‘The Iberian and Roman amphorae of Hispania Citerior’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 205–213.

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Mayerson, P. 2004, ‘Pitch (πíσσα) for Egyptian wine jars: an imported commodity’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 147: 201–204.

Menchelli, S. 2021, ‘Italian and Sicilian amphorae and their contents: a general overview’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 259–272.

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Opaiţ, A. 2007, ‘A Weighty Matter: Pontic Fish Amphorae’, in V. Gabrielsen and J. Lund (eds.), The Black Sea in Antiquity. Regional and Interregional Economic Exchanges, Aarhus: 101–121.

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Peña, J.T. 1998, ‘The mobilization of state olive oil in Roman Africa: the evidence of late 4th-c. ostraca from Carthage’, in J. Humphrey (ed.), Carthage Papers. The early colony’s economy, water supply, a public bath, and the mobilization of state olive oil, JRA Supplementary Series 28: 116 (map), 117–238.

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Small containers

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Amphora lids

Berni, P. and Botte, E. 2021, ‘Tituli picti on Spanish amphorae’, in D. Bernal-Casasola, M. Bonifay, A. Pecci and V. Leitch (eds.), Roman Amphora Contents. Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, RLAMP 17, Oxford (Archaeopress): 241–248.

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Shipwrecks with organic finds

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Reuse

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Barrels

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