Fragmentary terra sigillata bowl, with interior stamp, Villa of the Quintilii, Rome Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1872.1382.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1872.1382 AshLI 301

A fragmentary bowl of terra sigillata, preserving the base and parts of its lower wall, on which some moulded decorative motifs are visible (0.116+ 0.154+ 0.02+; diameter: 0.022; diameter of foot: 0.086).

The stamp is on the inner surface, in the centre of the floor, with the name of L. Rasinius Pisanus in a crescent shape.

 0.002 The workshop of L. Rasinius Pisanus was based in Pisa AD 50-120. According to the Accession Register, this fragment was purchased for the Ashmolean. Photograph Photograph
Rasini Pisani

Of Rasinius Pisanus.

The Villa of the Quintilii is on the Via Appia just outside Rome. The workshop of L. Rasinius Pisanus was based in Pisa, and was a major producer of Late Italian Sigillata (Oxé, Comfort, Kenrick 2000: p.15).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1872.1382; Brown (1968) p.38 no.114, Plate XXV + Figs 1, 2; Oxé, Comfort, Kenrick (2000) p.363 no.1690.51 (CVArr 1476, 1558) = OCK 4670.

Online: http://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/databases/objects/9059/ [accessed 17/09/15]

BrownA.C. 1968 Catalogue of Italian Terra-Sigillata in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford Clarendon Press OxéA. ComfortH. KenrickP. 2000, 2nd edn Corpus Vasorum Arretinorum. A Catalogue of the Signatures,Shapes and Chronology of Italian Sigillata Bonn Rudolf Habelt GMBH = OCK