Fragmentary terra sigillata cup (Les Martres-de-Veyre), with interior stamp, Cirencester (Gloucestershire) Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1960.1204.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1960.1204 AshLI 372

A small fragment of a terra sigillata cup (0.035+ 0.027+ 0.005+), possibly form Drag.27 (Hartley and Dickinson 2012: p.347 no.1a).

The stamp is within a rectangular cartouche (0.003 0.023+), in the middle of the inner surface. The letters CVN are ligatured.

 0.002 The fragment was found in Cirencester. AD 140-170 (Hartley and Dickinson 2012: p.347) 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
Vosecunni manu

By the hand of Vosecunnus.

The potter Vosecunnus (Vosegunnus) was active at the major centre for terra sigillata production at Les Martres-de-Veyre in Central Gaul (Hartley and Dickinson 2012: p.347).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1960.1204; Hartley and Dickinson (2012) p.347 no.1a.

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