Los platos de borde perlado de sigillata africana D1 o forma Hayes 56 variante: una propuesta tipológica

Abstract

This paper analyses a particular series of mould-made African Red Slip ware D1 sherds that exhibit a characteristic beading decoration along the rim. The available data are extremely fragmentary, since just a pair of nearly complete examples is known. Therefore, this typological proposal is based on several morphological variations detected on this kind of sherds, as well as, on some features borrowed from certain silverware prototypes. Both approaches allow three basic models to be established that could be rendered into a like number of different morphological variants for the socalled 'Hayes 56 flat-based variant'. On chronological grounds, a comprehensive review of the archaeological contexts, where this kind of sherds are found, points to a date of ca. 400/425-475, correcting the chronological framework previously established for this North African vessel.