Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien, Band 81/2012, pp. 233-276, 2024/10/14
In 2008 the location Keplerwiese in Linz (Upper Austria) excavations brought to light two storage cellars
containing an early ensemble of imported jugs and pitchers and Auerberg jars. The context was completed by two carrot amphorae, manufactured in the Levante. One of them bears a titulus pictus that can be read in different ways. E. Harrauer opts for a description of the content, U. Ehmig proposed a single name. Along with a small number of Italic Sigillata tableware came a service of six eggshell cups Mayet 34 of Baetican origin as well as a few cooking vessels. The ensemble seems a debris filling after a fire destroyed the overlaying houses rather than the vessels stored in the cellars. This further evidence of early Roman finds from Linz can be compared with similar contexts in early Noricum, Iuvavum, the Magdalensberg and Nauportus.
Furthermore it underlines the importance of the crossroads of two ancient traffic routes. In Linz the ancient. salt road from the Alps to Bohemia arrived at a spot where the Danube could be crossed with a reasonable danger.