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The paper presents a typological, ceramological and quantitative analysis of the amphorae assemblage from the archaeological excavation carried out in Beatas Street-Ramón Franquelo Corner in 1997. This site has evidences from the Early and Late Empire periods, but certainly, here the most outstanding is the Late Punic or Roman Republican phase. In this period, in addition to the presence of a funerary space, deposits with a high quantity of amphorae were registered, which we have dated around the second quarter of the 1st century BC. The important presence of Italic wine imports is remarkable, but also the significant arrival of oil coming from outside the Iberian Peninsula, as Ancient African and Brindisian amphorae show, from which several stamps are presented. In addition to providing new data and chronological details about the funerary and craft area placed in the north suburbium of the Late Punic Malaca, the assemblage studied constitutes an exceptional document to the dynamic trade analysis.
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