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In search of Lusitanian amphoras

Attending the congress on ‘Lusitanian amphorae, production and diffusion’ held at Tróia (Portugal) in October 20131 were not only many Portuguese researchers but also a range of international scholars. The resulting proceedings contain 38 contributions. The main goal was to present new results on amphora production in Lusitania and, especially, to update the evidence for and reconsider the circulation of Lusitanian amphoras by way of their distribution. This is a legitimate goal: as the editors correctly note in their Foreword, Lusitanian amphoras have been less studied at their point or places of consumption, much more being known about the places where they were produced,2 for which the first reports began to appear in the second half of the 19th c.3 Over the last three decades a huge number of Lusitanian kilns have been studied and published. The turning point for the study of Lusitanian amphoras came in 1987 with the classic typology proposed by A. D. Diogo,4 followed in the next year by the congress held at Conimbriga.5