Terra sigillata dish (La Graufesenque), with interior stamp, London Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1960.1118.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1960.1118 AshLI 343

Two sizeable fragments of terra sigillata, put together and restored into a complete dish, form Drag.16 (Diameter overall, of restored object: 0.162; foot-base diameter, 0.078).

The stamp is within a rectangular cartouche (0.003 0.02), in the middle of the inner surface. The letters MA are ligatured.

0.002 La Graufesenque Possibly AD 50-80 (Hartley and Dickinson 2009: p.119) 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
Fusci manu

By the hand of Fuscus.

This fragment of terra sigillata Samian ware was produced in southern Gaul at La Graufesenque by an individual named Fuscus, but it is unclear exactly which potter of that name is meant and when it was manufactured. This Fuscus was possibly active during the period AD 50-80 (Hartley and Dickinson 2009: pp.118-119).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1960.1118; Hartley and Dickinson (2009) p.118 2a

Hartley B.R. Dickinson B.M. 2009 Names on Terra Sigillata. An index of makers’ stamps & signatures on Gallo-Roman terra sigillata (Samian Ware) Vol. 4 (F to KLUMI) 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