Small fragment of a terra sigillata dish (Lezoux?) with internal stamp, Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Small fragment of a terra sigillata dish (Lezoux?) with internal stamp, Cirencester, Gloucestershire Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1960.1135.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1960.1135 AshLI 357

A small fragment of a terra sigillata dish (0.025+ 0.039+), possibly form Drag. 31 (Hartley and Dickinson 2012: p.36, no.3a).

The letters ER are ligatured, with the E in retrograde; the letters TI are also ligatured.

0.003 AD 130-160 (Hartley and Dickinson 2012: p.36). 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

Tertiolus fecit

Tertiolus made this.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1960.1135; Hartley and Dickinson (2012) p.36 no.3a

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