Abstract:

The production of olive-oil amphorae in Hispania Baetica is well known, due to the vast importance it reached since the beginning of the Early Empire and, especially, with the huge production and dissemination of Dressel 20 amphorae for more than two centuries. Without any doubt, the bulk production of olive-oil amphorae was concentrated in the Guadalquivir valley, the area that has provided the most information and received the most attention. However, this does not preclude the manufacture of olive oil in other areas within the south coast of the Iberian Peninsula or the production of amphorae containers intended for longdistance trade, as it is the case of the current province of Málaga. Thus, although it would not be predominant, the existence of Roman olive-oil amphorae is known in this territory from the second half of the first century BC with ovoid forms. Dressel 20 type would be manufactured in the Early Empire and oil-amphorae will continue during the Late Empire, as shown by the production of variants of Dressel 23 from different workshops of Málaga.