Fragment of a decorated terra sigillata bowl (Lezoux), with exterior stamp, Wanborough (Wiltshire) Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1960.1152.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1960.1152.xml AshLI 361

Several conjoining fragments from the top of a decorated terra sigillata bowl, type Drag.37, preserving part of its upper rim intact. There is a plain section immediately below the upper rim, followed by a decorative border with ovolo, and decorative scenes below. The scenes include a bird in flight within a tendril-scroll, and foliage (both large and small).

Dimensions: 0.11+ 0.13+

The stamp is at the centre bottom of the fragment, with retrograde letters.

Letters: 0.008 According to the Accession Register, these fragments were found in Rookery Field, Lotmead, Wanborough AD 150-185 (Hartley and Dickinson 2011: p.62) According to the Accession Register, these fragments were found in Rookery Field, Lotmead, Wanborough, and 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). It is currently in store Photograph Photograph: reverse
Paternus fecit

Paternus made this

The ‘curious, large mould-stamp of uncertain reading’ has been identified as die type 7a of the potter known as Paternus v from Lezoux (Hartley and Dickinson 2011: p.62).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1960.1152

Hartley B.R. Dickinson B.M. 2011 Names of Terra Sigillata. An index of makers’ stamps & signatures on Gallo-Roman terra sigillata (Samian Ware) Vol 7. (P to RXEAD) London BICS Suppl. 102-07 Phillips L. 2004 An Investigation into the Life of A.D. Passmore, “A Most Curious Specimen” Wiltshire Studies Journal 97 273-92