“Anforette adriatiche da pesce”: l’approccio archeometrico

This paper presents the results of the archaeometric analyses carried out within the SHERDs project on the “Anforette adriatiche da pesce”. The analyses, performed on a large sample of amphorae discovered across the Adriatic area – particularly from Aquileia and Urbisaglia – aimed to define compositional groups that proved to be homogeneous. The multi-analytical approach, combining thin-section petrographic, X-ray powder diffraction (XRPL), and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyses, revealed the existence of two distinct productions, corresponding to different provenance areas. The comparison of chemical data with those of oil and wine amphorae of Early Imperial age (Dressel 6A and 6B) from Adriatic production centres did not show any direct correspondence, leading to the formulation of working hypotheses based on the overall dataset produced by the interdisciplinary project on the “Anforette adriatiche da pesce”. These hypotheses will be verified in future further research.