Terra sigillata dish (<placeName ref="http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/167810">Lezoux</placeName>) Pudding Pan Rock, Kent, with internal stamp Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1896-1908.R.332.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1896-1908.R.332 AshLI 318

An intact terra sigillata dish, Drag. 79, with barnacles on its bottom surface (diameter of base: 0.098; overall diameter, 0.18).

There is a stamp in the middle of its inner surface within a cartouche (0.003 0.028).

 0.003 According to the Accession Register, the dish originates from the shipwreck found at Pudding Pan Rock, Herne Bay, Kent. AD 170-200 (Hartley and Dickinson 2008: p.293). It is currently on display in the Rome Gallery. photograph photograph photograph
Atiliani Marci

Of Marcus Atilianus.

Fishermen over many years, from at least the eighteenth century, had been acquiring samples of Gallo-Roman pottery from the area of Pudding-pan Rock in the Thames Estuary, Kent. By the early twentieth century the conclusion had been made (Smith 1907 and Smith 1909) that the rock marked the spot of a Roman shipwreck from the late Antonine period, of a cargo-ship carrying terra sigillata and other pottery.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1896-1908.R.332; Hartley and Dickinson (2008) p.292, 5a.

Hartley B.R. Dickinson B.M. 2008 Names on Terra Sigillata. An index of makers’ stamps & signatures on Gallo-Roman terra sigillata (Samian Ware) Vol. 3 (CERTIANUS to EXSOBANO) BICS Suppl. 102-9 London Smith R. 1907 Report on Wreck on Pudding-pan Rock, Herne Bay, Kent Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries 2nd series 21, 17 Jan. 1907 268-92 Smith R. 1909 Report on diving operations on Pudding-pan Rock, Herne Bay, Kent Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries 2nd series 22, 18th Feb 1909 395-414