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Saint-Raphaël: Amphorae from a Roman shipwreck
Roman amphorae from shipwreck (Musée Archéologique de St. Raphaël; photo: Athena Review).
The
Musée Archéologique in Saint-Raphaël has an outstanding collection of
Graeco-Roman amphorae recovered from shipwrecks in the nearby
Mediterranean. One of the ground-floor rooms of the museum shows an
impressive stack of amphorae from the 1st century BC Dramont A
shipwreck, shown here.
Roman ships of this period measured 15-20
meters in length, and could carry up to 2000 amphorae stacked
vertically (containing about 12,000 gallons of wine or oil). Later
Spanish examples of amphorae in the museum were used to store both
olive oil and a favored fish sauce known as saumure.
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