Fragmentary terra sigillata cup (Lezoux), with interior stamp, London Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1960.1117.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1960.1117 AshLI 342

Fragment of a terra sigillata cup, form Drag.33, including its foot (Foot diameter, 0.035; overall diameter, 0.042+).

The stamp is within a rectangular cartouche, in the middle of the inner surface. The letters IT are ligatured.

0.002-0.003 Lezoux AD 150-170 (Hartley and Dickinson 2012: p.74) The fragment was found in London. 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
Titus fecit

Titus made (this).

The potter Titus iii was based at Lezoux, a major centre for Samian production in central Gaul (Hartley and Dickinson 2012: p.72).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1960.1117; Hartley and Dickinson 2012: p.73, 10a

Hartley B.R. Dickinson B.M. 2012 An index of makers’ stamps & signatures on Gallo-Roman terra sigillata (Samian Ware) Vol. 9 (T to XIMUS) 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