Fragmentary terra sigillata dish (Les Martres-de-Veyre), with interior stamp, Cirencester (Gloucestershire) Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1960.1237.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1960.1237 AshLI 375

A fragment from the base of a terra sigillata dish (0.059+ 0.038+ 0.06+), probably form Drag. 18/31.

There is a stamp within a rectangular cartouche (0.003 0.014+) in the centre of its inner surface. The stamp is damaged on its right side. The text can be restored on comparison with other examples of the same stamp (Hartley and Dickinson 2011: p.343).

 0.003 The fragment was found in Cirencester. AD 120-150 (Hartley and Dickinson 2011: p.345). 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
Regini manu

By the hand of Reginus.

The potter identified as Reginus II was active at the major centre for terra sigillata production at Les Martres-de-Veyre in Central Gaul (Hartley and Dickinson 2011: pp.343-345).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1960.1237; Hartley and Dickinson (2011) p.343 no.1a

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