To browse Academia. During Although only four trenches were excavated, and research is only at its begging, rich layer of finds suggest us that this is very important shipwreck that will give us new evidences about maritime transport in the Adriatic during 4th and 5th century.
Several types of North African amphorae are already determined; some of them are preliminarily determined as Keay 25, 35 and Few of them carry stamps that could give us possibility to locate their point of origin more accurately.
This lecture aims to present new evidences of trade import from North Africa in the Adriatic, and to present different amphorae and pottery types found on this shipwreck.
In this paper author gives short review of the sites and basic characteristics of the African amphora types found on the underwater sites in Croatia The great amount of amphorae import from North African provinces found on the underwater sites of the eastern Adriatic coast gives us picture of connections between these two areas.
In the 2nd century this material is present only sporadically and during the 3rd and 4th century there is an increase in exchange represented by a great majority of pottery finds. From the underwater sites in Croatia, until today, there have been more than ten types of African amphorae identified.
