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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Almost complete vessel - Dressel 38 (Beltran IIA, Camulodunum 186c, P & W class 18). The principal contents of these amphorae were fish sauce and other salazones (e.g., garum and liquamen). Most originate at the Baetican centres of that industry (mostly the Bay of Cadiz where the clay was derived from sources at the mouth of the River Guadalete).
A minimum of eight Dressel 38 vessels were recovered at the Museum site excavation. With the exception of this example (No. 13) all have characteristic iron ore inclusions. The type was current from the Flavian period, or slightly before, to the early/mid- 2nd century AD. The Museum site examples are Flavian, Trajanic, or early Hadrianic in date. This vessel (No. 13) is Trajanic/early Hadranic.
Catalogue No. 13: Body of a Dressel 38, including lower handle attachments and part of a hollow spike; fabric cream-buff (Cadiz fabric). On the upper set vertically beneath the handle is the stamp (in a plain rectangular border) A]RIST followed by a palm-frond stop. (111, 163; 10.A2)
Cf. Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales Accession No. 38.472/11.2 with dipinto.
Site Name: Museum Garden, Caerleon
Notes: 111, 163; 10.A2
