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They have an everted, narrow triangular rim in sec- handles and part of the body. It has an everted, round-
tion with sharpened edges, a pointed projection below ed rim, with grooved handles oval in section, orig-
the level of rim, handles rounded in profile, rising above inating just below the lip and attaching to the body
the rim level, a conical thick neck, an ovoid body and a on the shoulder, the widest part of the body being on
ring-shaped bottom. In the Pompei V amphora we found, shoulders, and an ovoid body, a small bulge at the
only the neck, handles and part of the body suvived to the bottom with a pointed end, and there are frequent
present day although it was heavily covered with marine grooves on the outher surface starting below the han-
organisms. The mouth and the body after the part handles dles and running until the base. The LR 1-B amphora
attached on the shoulders and the bottom have not been we found can be dated to the 6th century AD to 8th
preserved. Based on similar examples, we propose that century AD (Fig. 8c).
it can be dated to the late 1st century AD and early 2nd CYPRIOt aMPHORaS
century AD (Fig. 8a). Basket-Handled Amphoras
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LR 1-A Type Amphora Having a characteristic form, these amphoras are
The amphoras of this type were produced in many considered to have been produced in Cyprus although
different regions other than Cilicia and Cyprus. Type there are many controversial opinions about their or-
LR 1-A has an everted rounded rim, handles in oval igin . The basket-handled amphoras found during
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section, originating right below the lip and attaching the Kekova Island surveys were found broken. Only
to the body on the shoulders, an ovoid body and a
small bulging bottom. It is covered with frequent mouth, handles and part of the body have survived
grooves. They are considered to have been produced to the present day. These amphoras have an everted
from the second half of the 4th century AD until the mushroom-shaped high rim, a spiral circle on the
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8th century AD. Based on similar examples, we pro- neck, round, vertical and very thick basket handles
pose that the type A, a sub-form of LR-1 amphora, rising up to the rim and an ovoid body. The base is
that we recovered can be dated to the 5th century AD produced low to fit gently to the body. The junction of
(Fig. 8b). handles with the body has a sharp angle characteristic
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LR 1-B Type Amphora to the Basket Handled Cypriot amphoras . Based on
The LR-1B type of amphora recovered during our similar examples, we propose that the basket handled
Kekova Island marine archaeological survey has sur- amphora we found can be dated to between the 8th
vived to the present day with an intact mouth, neck, and 7th centuries BC (Fig. 9).

Fig. 15.

24 For more information, please see GRACE 1979, 13. fig. 33.
25 ŞENOL 2009, 230.
26 “The basket-handled amphoras represent the earliest amphora groups in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, and its production site is
problematic. The fact that no workshops, kiln or waste layers have been discovered related with this group has led the discussions about
their production site to focus especially on Syria-Phoenicia and Cyprus.”; ALKAÇ 2013, 109.
27 For basket-handled amphoras with similar forms, please see WOLFF 2011, 15-18 fig. 1-7.
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