Los tipos anfóricos del Guadalquivir en el marco de los envases hispanos del siglo I a.C. Un universo heterogéneo entre la imitación y la estandarización

Abstract

Current research trends on the material culture in the province of Hispania Ulterior in the late republic and the early years of the Augustean reign, make any systematisation of amphorae in the Guadalquivir valley (in a wide sense) liable to be soon superseded by new finds and evidence. The present work aims at reviewing the state of the question of 1st century b. C. amphorae, not exhaustively but taken as many contexts into account as possible, including production and consumption areas. Starting with the material evidence, we propose a typology divided in seventeen regional amphora types in four groups, according to ‘commercial sucess’ and the duration of the type. The morphological analysis, which includes new proposals on the origin and development of types such as Haltern 70, Oberaden 83 and Urceus, is offered along a historic-economic contextualisation and the comparison with other coeval amphoric repertoires in the Iberian Peninsula. The result is a complex typological and functional proposal which, in our opinion, responds better to the archaeological record for the chronology and geographical context in hand. Obviously, the proposal aims at becoming the base for further discussion in the future.