This document discusses African amphoras from the 3rd and 4th centuries found in Menorca. It classifies the amphoras into types Keay VI and Keay VII based on their shape, place and time of production, and contents. Keay VI amphoras contained oil and fish sauce, were produced near the Sahel region from 230-350 AD. Keay VII amphoras contained oil, were produced in Byzacene and Tripolitana from 280-380 AD. The document also mentions commercial routes between North Africa and Menorca, and stamps found on some amphoras indicating their place of origin.

1. African Amphora from By
Antonio Jesús
Byzacene and Tripolitana in T. Montes
Menorca (3th and 4th century)

2. Origin
 In the 3th
century
AD, changed the
comerce of oil
 In 297
AD, Africa
Proconsalaris
divided in three
provinces

3. Clasification of african amphoras
 Zevi and Tchernia
(1969)
 “Africana grande” and
“Africana piccole”
 C. Panella (1973)
 African I (a, b, c, d)
 African II (a, b, c, d)
 Keay (1984)

4. Our amphoras
 Keay VI (African II
C, africana grande)
 Chronology: (230 AD – 350
AD)
 Fabrication: near to Sahel
region
 Content: oil and fish sauce
(garum)

5.  Keay VII (African II
D, anfora grande
 Chronology: 280 AD –
380 AD
 Fabrication: Byzacene
and Tripolitana region
 Content: oil

6. Differences between Keay VI and
Keay VII

7. Comercial routes between Africa
Proconsalaris and Menorca

8. Stamps from Sanisera
BSCD/ LEP(TIS)
MI(NOR
LEP(T)I (S) COL(ONIA) LFE M.A.

9. BSCD/LEP(TIS)
MI(NOR) TEP/LOP
C(OLONIA)
C(OLONIA)
H(ADRUMETUM) IVL(IA)
T(HAENAE)
/ LUCIUS

10. The last stamp we found in the 2nd
sesion
C(OLONIA)
HADR(UMETUM) /MITOR

11. Chronology of Late Empire shipwreck
with amphoras Keay VI and Keay VII
BELTRAN 72 (300 AD – 350 AD)

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