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Lixus y la caracterización petrográfica de sus ánforas: primeros resultados a partir de las excavaciones de 2018 y 2021 en el Sector Sur

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[spa] Las excavaciones realizadas en años recientes en el Sector Sur de Lixus (Larache, Marruecos) han permitido recuperar, entre otros materiales, un importante conjunto de ánforas de diversas cronologías, desde las fases finales de la época mauritana de la ciudad hasta la época tardorromana, incluyendo numerosos envases salsarios/salazoneros de tipologías propias de la región del Estrecho de Gibraltar. Teniendo en cuenta la importancia de la industria haliéutica en Lixus y la ausencia, hasta la fecha, de evidencias directas de alfares en el entorno del yacimiento (cuya existencia sería esperable, debido a la necesidad de suministrar envases a las factorías locales), el estudio de este extenso conjunto anfórico resultaba de gran interés para examinar la posibilidad de identificar envases locales y/o regionales, buscando obtener nuevos indicios para una mejor comprensión de las dinámicas de producción y comercio en este importante enclave tingitano. Para ello, se realizó un estudio  etrográfico, mediante microscopía óptica por lámina delgada, de una selección de veintiséis ánforas de los contextos excavados de épocas mauritana a tardorromana, englobando una amplia variedad de tipologías. El estudio permitió identificar una gran variedad de fábricas petrográficas, en su mayor parte incompatibles con la hipótesis de un origen local y, en cambio, relacionables varias de ellas con una proveniencia del sur de Hispania. Esta preeminencia de ánforas regionales en los contextos lixitanos es significativa y, si bien no excluye la posible existencia de una producción anfórica local, ofrece, en cambio, interesantes novedades sobre las dinámicas comerciales de Lixus y, en un sentido más amplio, sobre la complejidad de los circuitos de producción y distribución de envases anfóricos en la Antigüedad en la región del Estrecho.
[eng] Excavations conducted in recent years in the Southern Sector of Lixus (Larache, Morocco) uncovered, among others, an important assemblage of amphorae of various chronologies, from the f inal phases of the Mauretanian period to the Late Roman period, including numerous amphorae for fish preserves/sauces ascribed to types that are characteristic of the Strait of Gibraltar region. Bearing in mind the importance of the halieutic industry in Lixus and the absence, to date, of direct evidence for pottery workshops in the vicinity of the site (whose existence would be expected, given the need to supply the local fish factories with amphorae), the study of this large amphora assemblage was of great interest as it allowed for investigating the possible presence of local and/ or regional containers in the Lixitan contexts, with the aim of gaining new insights into the production and trade dynamics of this important city of the Tingitan peninsula. For this reason, a mineralogical and petrographic analysis, by means of thinsection optical microscopy, was carried out on a sample of 26 amphorae from the excavated contexts, encompassing various amphora types from the Mauretanian to the Late Roman periods.  The study allowed for the identification of a wide variety of petrographic fabrics, in most cases incompatible with a local provenance and, in fact, many of them related to an origin in southern Hispania. This prevalence of regional amphorae in the Lixitan contexts is significant, and, while not excluding the possible existence of a local amphora production, it does, however, provide new interesting data on the commercial dynamics of Lixus and, in a broader sense, on the complexity of the circuits of production and distribution of transport amphorae in the Strait of Gibraltar region in Antiquity.

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[eng] Excavations conducted in recent years in the Southern Sector of Lixus (Larache, Morocco) uncovered, among others, an important assemblage of amphorae of various chronologies, from the final phases of the Mauretanian period to the Late Roman period, including numerous amphorae for fish preserves/sauces ascribed to types that are characteristic of the Strait of Gibraltar region.
Bearing in mind the importance of the halieutic industry in Lixus and the absence, to date, of direct evidence for pottery workshops in the vicinity of the site (whose existence would be expected, given the need to supply the local fish factories with amphorae), the study of this large amphora assemblage was of great interest as it allowed for investigating the possible presence of local and/ or regional containers in the Lixitan contexts, with the aim of gaining new insights into the production and trade dynamics of this important city of the Tingitan peninsula. For this reason, a mineralogical and petrographic analysis, by means of thinsection optical microscopy, was carried out on a sample of 26 amphorae from the excavated contexts, encompassing various amphora types from the Mauretanian to the Late Roman periods.

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cc-by-nc-sa (c) Fantuzzi, Leandro et al., 2026

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Articles publicats en revistes (Història i Arqueologia)

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Lixus y la caracterización petrográfica de sus ánforas: primeros resultados a partir de las excavaciones de 2018 y 2021 en el Sector Sur

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Lixus and the petrographic characterization of its amphorae: first results from
the 2018 and 2021 excavations in the Southern Sector