Fragment of terra sigillata, with external stamp, Arretium (Arezzo) Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1937.38.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1937.38 AshLI 333

Fragment of a terra sigillata rim (0.04+ 0.086+), with part of a border and main scene. At the top is a border of beading and ovolos. The main scene consists of a horizontal palmette, flanked by ivy leaves and tightly twisted tendrils.

Above the palmette is the stamp (0.005 0.015). The decoration slightly overlaps the stamp.

 0.005 Arezzo 5 BC - AD 40. This was part of the collection belonging to Miss M.H. Lloyd of Cambridge, which her father bought in Florence in 1924. It was bought at Sotheby’s in 1937 as part of a lot of forty fragments of sigillata pottery (Sotheby’s Sale Catalogue, 9th February 1937: Lot 57, ‘Samian pottery’) (Brown 1968: p.xvii). Photograph Photograph
Rhodo

R(h)odo (made this).

R(h)odo was a slave working in the workshop of P. Cornelius, based at Cincelli, 8 km. from Arezzo (Oxé, Comfort, Kenrick 2000: p.46). It would have been accompanied by another separate stamp, ‘P Corneli’, elsewhere on the vessel (OCK 623).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1937.38; Brown (1968) p.31 no.88, Plate XXI + Fig. 1; Oxé, Comfort, Kenrick (2000) p.367 no.1708.1 (CVArr 536) = OCK 4665

Online: http://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/databases/people/2636_rodo/ Database OCK 4665 [accessed 17/09/15]; http://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/databases/objects/9054/ [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