Fragmentary terra sigillata cup (Lezoux), with interior stamp, Wanborough, Wiltshire Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1960.1116.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1960.1116 AshLI 341

A fragmentary base of a terra sigillata cup (0.045+ 0.072+ 0.025+).

The stamp is within a rectangular cartouche (0.004 0.023), in the middle of the inner surface. The letters ANI are ligatured.

 0.003 Lezoux AD 170-200 (Hartley and Dickinson 2008: p.293) This fragment was found on 1/7/1905 in Rookery Field, Lotmead, Wanborough. 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). photograph photograph
Atiliani officina

Production unit of Atilianus.

Atilianus I was based mainly at Lezoux, a major centre for Samian production in central Gaul. His pots were distributed within the Gallic provinces and Britain (Hartley and Dickinson 2008: p.290-94). On comparison with other stamps of same potter, it is likely that O stands for OF.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1960.1116; Dickinson (2001) p.193 no.26; Hartley and Dickinson 2008: p.291 2c

Dickinson B. 2001 The potters’ stamps The Romano-British ‘Small Town’ at Wanborough, Wiltshire A.S. Anderson J.S. Wacher A.P. Fitzpatrick Britannia Monograph 19: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies London 192-209 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 Phillips L. 2004 An Investigation into the Life of A.D. Passmore, “A Most Curious Specimen” Wiltshire Studies Journal 97 273-92