Abstract:

This contribution has a dual scientific purpose. First, we summarize the main ideas of our recent review of the typology Dressel 2-4 Tarraconense, today called Dressel 3-2, study that we published in 2015 in Archivo Español de Arqueología. Second, we widen the field of investigation to several aspects whose importance is essential for the study of these amphorae. Thanks to the descriptive method of classification of Dressel 3-2 – in particular the evolution of the shape of the bottom and the associated laetanian epigraphy –, it is not only possible to identify them with precision, but also to date the different phases of the activity of the figlinae and its protagonists. We then focus on the commercial dynamics of the wines produced on the two slopes of the territory of laetanian by proposing the hypothesis of a polarization of the wine production and the amphora industries in the two zones, western and eastern. On the basis of archaeological data, we suggest that the laetanian wine trade had to face two punctual moments of crisis (second quarter of the 1st century AD and Flavian period). Trad. Oriane Bourgeon.