General Information

The so-called Dressel 24-Predecessor amphoras were produced near Erythrae, on the Asia Minor coast, as well as on Chios, an island directly opposite. The distinctive form includes a wide cup-shaped rim, a smooth concave curved neck, and compact bag-shaped body. The handle is oval in section, and the bottom is a short spike. This form survived into the Early Imperial period with only minor modifications; the developed Roman form is known as a Dressel 24.

Amphoras of this form are known from the excavations at Troy by the end of the 2nd or early 1st c. BCE, as they are present in deposits of destruction debris associated with the Roman general Fimbria's sack in 85 BCE.*

The above description comes from Tamás Bezeczky 2013, p. 72.

Kokhim Cave (Israel/Galilee)