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Saint-Raphaël: Amphorae from a Roman shipwreck
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. Roman ships of this
period measured 15-20 meters in length, and could carry up to 2000 amphorae
stacked vertically (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.
[Fig.1: Roman amphorae from shipwreck (Musée Archéologique
de St. Raphaël; photo: Athena Review).]
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