Terra sigillata dish (Lezoux), Pudding Pan Rock, Kent Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1961.254.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1961.254 AshLI 377

An intact dish of terra sigillata (Diameter of base: 0.099; overall diameter: 0.185), form Walters 79 (according to the Accession Register).

There is a stamp in the middle of its inner surface within a cartouche (0.003 0.025). The stamp contains characteristics of stamp 8c of Paullus V, as discussed by Hartley and Dickinson (2011: pp.113-114). The cross-bar on the letter A extends across the first stroke at a slant, whilst there is an extraneous diagonal on the V, and a random interpunct dot before the second L.

0.003 Lezoux AD 165-200 (Hartley and Dickinson 2011: p.114) According to the Accession Register, the dish originates from the shipwreck found at Pudding Pan Rock, Herne Bay, Kent It is currently on display in the Rome Gallery. photograph
Paulli

Of Paullus.

Fishermen over many years, from at least the eighteenth century, had been acquiring samples of Gallo-Roman pottery from the area of Pudding-pan Rock in the Thames Estuary, Kent. By the early twentieth century the conclusion had been made (Smith 1907 and Smith 1909) that the rock marked the spot of a Roman shipwreck from the late Antonine period, of a cargo-ship carrying terra sigillata and other pottery.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1961.254; Hartley and Dickinson (2011) p.113, 8c

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 Smith R. 1907 Report on Wreck on Pudding-pan Rock, Herne Bay, Kent Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries 2nd series 21, 17 Jan. 1907 268-92 Smith R. 1909 Report on diving operations on Pudding-pan Rock, Herne Bay, Kent Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries 2nd series 22, 18th Feb 1909 395-414