Editing Amphora (section)

==Classification==
The first systematic classification of Roman amphorae types was undertaken by the German scholar [[Heinrich Dressel]]. Following the exceptional amphora deposit uncovered in Rome in Castro Pretorio at the end of the 1800s, he collected almost 200 inscriptions from amphorae and included them in the ''[[Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum]]''. In his studies of the amphora deposit he was the first to elaborate a classification of types, the so-called "Dressel table",<ref>Dressel 1879, Di un grande deposito di anfore rinvenuto nel nuovo quartiere del Castro Pretorio, in BullCom, VII, 36–112, 143–196.</ref> which still is used today for many types.

Subsequent studies on Roman amphorae have produced more detailed classifications, which usually are named after the scholar who studied them. For the neo-Phoenician types see the work by Maña published in 1951,<ref>Maña, Sobre tipologia de ánforas pùnicas, in ''VI Congreso Arqueologico del Sudeste Español'', Alcoy, 1950, Cartagena, 1951, 203–210</ref> and the revised classification by Van der Werff in 1977–1978.<ref>Amphores de tradition punique à Uzita, in BaBesch 52-53, 171-200</ref> The Gallic amphorae have been studied by Laubenheimer in a study published in 1989,<ref>Laubenheimer, Les amphores gauloises sous l’empire: recherches nouvelles sur leur production et chronologie, in ''Amphores romaines et histoire économiqué: dis ans de recherche''. Actes du Colloque de Sienne (22-24 mai 1986), Rome, 105-138</ref> whereas the Cretan amphorae have been analyzed by Marangou-Lerat.<ref>Marangou-Lerat, Le vin et les amphores de Crète de l’epoque classique à l’epoque impériale, in ''Etudes Cretoises'', 30, Paris, 1995</ref> Beltràn studied the Spanish types in 1970.<ref>Beltràn, ''Las anforas Romanas en Espana'', Zaragoza</ref> Adriatic types have been studied by Lamboglia in 1955.<ref>"Sulla cronologia delle anfore romane di età repubblicana" in ''Rivista Studi Liguri 21'', 252–60</ref> For a general analysis of the Western Mediterranean types see Panella,{{sfn|Panella|2001|pp=177–275|ps=: <q>Le anfore di età imperiale del Mediterraneo occidentale</q>, in ''Céramiques hellénistiques et romaines III''}} and Peacock and Williams.<ref name="Peacock, Williams 1986, 45"/>