Fragmentary terra sigillata bowl (<placeName ref="http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/167810">Lezoux</placeName>), Pudding Pan Rock, Kent Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1938.362.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1938.362 AshLI 338

Just over half of a terra sigillata bowl is preserved, with its base (base diameter: 0.052. Overall diameter: 0.103+; h., 0.038), Form Walters 80.

There is a stamp (0.004 0.026+) in the middle of the inner surface which is not very legible.

0.004 According to the Accession Register, the dish originates from the shipwreck found at Pudding Pan Rock, Herne Bay, Kent. AD 160-200 (Hartley and Dickinson 2011: p.199). It was given to the museum by R.G. Collingwood (1889–1943), philosopher and scholar of Roman Britain at the University of Oxford (Collini and Williams 2008). The bowl is currently on display in the Rome Gallery. Photograph Photograph
Primani

Of Primanus.

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 1938.362; Hartley and Dickinson (2011) p.198 no.6d.

Collini Stefan Williams Bernard 2008 Collingwood, Robin George (1889–1943) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2008 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32503, accessed 26 Nov 2015 Hartley B.R. Dickinson B.M. 2011 Names of Terra Sigillata. An index of makers’ stamps & signatures on Gallo-Roman terra sigillata (Samian Ware) Vol 7. (P to RXEAD) London BICS Suppl. 102-07 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