Fragmentary terra sigillata cup (Lezoux), with interior stamp, Mildenhall (Wiltshire)Alison E. CooleyAEC/ASHLAN1960.1115.xmlOxfordAshmolean MuseumAN1960.1115AshLI 340
A fragmentaryterra sigillatacup, with its foot
(Foot diameter: 0.04; overall diameter: 0.047+).
The stamp is within a rectangular cartouche, in the middle of the inner surface.
The letter A lacks a cross-bar.
LezouxAD 140-160 (Hartley and Dickinson 2008: p.214)This fragment was found at Mildenhall in Wiltshire.
According to the Accession Register, it was given to the Ashmolean from the collection of Arthur Dennis Passmore (1877–1958),
an archaeologist and antiquarian from Swindon, who was a member of several scholarly societies, including the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History and Prehistoric Societies
and British Numismatic Society (Phillips 2004).photographphotograph
Cucalimanu
By the hand of Cucalus.
This is a fragmentary terra sigillata cup, form Drag. 33, manufactured at Lezoux, a major centre for Samian production in central Gaul,
during the second century AD by Cucalus. In fact the shape of its cartouche (with the straight edge on its right-hand side) suggests
that it is an example of 2e rather than 2b (as Hartley and Dickinson 2008: p.213).
Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1960.1115; Hartley and Dickinson 2008: p.213, 2b
HartleyB.R.DickinsonB.M.2008Names on Terra Sigillata. An index of makers’
stamps & signatures on Gallo-Roman terra sigillata (Samian Ware) Vol. 3 (CERTIANUS to EXSOBANO)BICS Suppl. 102-9LondonPhillips L.2004An Investigation into the Life of A.D. Passmore, “A Most Curious Specimen”Wiltshire Studies Journal97273-92