Fragmentary terra sigillata cup (Lezoux), with interior stamp, Cirencester

Fragmentary terra sigillata cup (Lezoux), with interior stamp, Cirencester Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1960.1132.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1960.1132 AshLI 354

A fragmentary terra sigillata cup (Base diameter: 0.032+; overall diameter, 0.035+; 0.016+) , form Drag. 27.

The stamp is within a rectangular cartouche (0.003 0.019+), in the middle of the inner surface.

0.003 Lezoux AD 100-125 / AD 145-175 (Hartley and Dickinson 2008: p.137, 143) This fragment is of uncertain provenance, possibly from Cirencester (Gloucestershire). 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

Albucius fecit

Albucius made this.

This is a stamp of either Albucius i or of Albucius ii, potter(s) based at Lezoux, a major centre for Samian production in central Gaul (Hartley and Dickinson 2008: p.137-44, with n.11 on p.144 for the uncertainty of identification).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1960.1132; Hartley and Dickinson (2008) p.140 5a

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. 102-3 London Phillips L. 2004 An Investigation into the Life of A.D. Passmore, “A Most Curious Specimen” Wiltshire Studies Journal 97 273-92