Bolli di anfore rodie da Terracina
In: Archeologia Classica: 73, 2022
DOI: 10.48255/2240-7839.ArchCl.LXXIII.2022.23
Five Rhodian amphora stamps have been found in Terracina. They shed light on the history and topography of the ancient city. They are evidence of a trade which grew in importance from the 180s BC onwards as the taste for Greek wine developed among Italic peoples. The amphoras they belonged to were not imported directly from Rhodes but through emporia in the Aegean and in Magna Graecia. From a topographical point of view, the stamps found in Terracina help us to better understand the urban and commercial development of the lower city from the first quarter of the 2nd century BC, a period in which the maritime and ports as well as the waterways which connected them, already constituted an alternative to the road system, whose main axis was Via Appia.
Keywords: Rhodian amphora stamps; Terracina; ancient trade; landscape archaeology.