Terra sigillata cup (<placeName ref="http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/167810">Lezoux</placeName>), Pudding Pan Rock, Kent, with internal stamp Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1909.1156.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1909.1156 AshLI 319

An intact terra sigillata cup (diameter of the base: 0.05; diameter overall: 0.14; h.0.65), Drag. 33, with barnacles inside and out.

There is a stamp in the middle of its inner surface within a cartouche (0.003 0.025).

 0.003 According to the Accession Register, the bowl originates from the shipwreck found at Pudding Pan Rock, Herne Bay, Kent. AD 170-200 (Hartley and Dickinson 2008: p.293) It was given to the museum in 1909 by Mrs Eustace Smith (1835–1919), of Lyndhurst, Hampshire, wife of Thomas Eustace Smith, MP and shipper. At the time of the donation, the couple had suffered social disgrace, prompting them to live in Spain from 1885 for several years, returning to live quietly at High Coxlease, Lyndhurst in a house built for them in 1898 (Wilcox 2004). It is currently on display in the Rome Gallery. photograph photograph
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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 1909.1156; 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 Wilcox T. 2004 Smith, Martha Mary [Eustacia] (1835-1919) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford Oxford University Press, online edition http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62864, accessed 19 Nov 2015