Una aportación al estudio del comercio marítimo antiguo gaditano a partir de un conjunto de ánforas halladas en aguas del área de La Caleta (Cádiz)

La Caleta (Cadiz) has been addressed in the last decades as part of the port facilities of the ancient city of Gadir/Gades. The research in the area has provided interesting data regarding the distribu- tion of amphorae on the basis of the study of a heterogeneous set of evidence from archaeological campaigns or from museum collections. The role of La Caleta and its surrounding shoals as anchor- age and commercial port should have been very important in Antiquity, at least from the Phoeni- cian period to the Late Roman Empire. Therefore, the analysis of the ceramic evidence from the site is quite relevant not only to contribute to a better un- derstanding of the use of this coastal area but also to study the features of the local maritime trade and the reception of foreign commodities. The main goal of the paper is to present some unpub- lished amphorae discovered in underwater contexts of the area of La Caleta in the 70’s. After a brief historiographic introduction we present the study of 36 amphorae individuals, and on the basis of the available data we will propose some ideas about the commercial  uxes from/to Gadir/Gades between the 5th century BC and the 2nd century AD.