Fragmentary terra sigillata cup (Lezoux), with interior stamp, Cirencester, Gloucestershire Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1960.1133.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1960.1133 AshLI 355

A fragmentary terra sigillata cup (0.015+ 0.06+; foot diameter, 0.054), form Drag. 33.

The stamp is within a rectangular cartouche (0.015+ 0.06+; foot diameter, 0.054), in the middle of the inner surface. The letter A lacks a cross-bar; the letter E consists of two vertical bars.

 0.002 Lezoux AD 135-65 (Hartley and Dickinson 2009: p.271) 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 photograph
Marcelli manu

By the hand of Marcellus.

The stamp is probably to be associated with the potter known as Marcellus iii, who appears to have worked chiefly at Lezoux, a major centre for Samian production in central Gaul (Hartley and Dickinson 2009: pp.267-71).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1960.1133; Hartley and Dickinson (2009) p.268, 2m

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