Arretine mould with exterior stamp Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1966.251.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1966.252 AshLI 380

Four sections of an Arretine ware mould (Dimensions: 0.16 0.22. . There are highly ornate borders at top and bottom, with palmettes, rosettes, and foliage. There are scenes of love-making with four pairs of male and male/female lovers. The background is populated with a variety of motifs, including lyres, candelabra, garlands, erotes atop columns, and standing female figures with flowing robes.

Ligatured stamps of M. Perennius Tigranus appear inside cartouches within one of the upper borders. Cartouche: 0.007 0.017.

Letters: 0.007 c.10 BC – AD 60 According to the Accession Register, no provenance is recorded for this mould, which was given to the Ashmolean by Sir John Beazley, from the former collection of E.P. Warren. Vickers (1992: p.12, with fig. 9) states that it was shown to be a modern forgery in the 1980s. Photograph Photograph Photograph Photograph Photograph
Marcus Perenni
Tigrani
Marcus Perenni
Tigrani

Of Marcus Perennius Tigranus

This is the stamp of M. Perennius Tigranus (OCK no.1413), a freedman, from the branch factory at Cincelli, roughly 8 km. from Arezzo, which was one of the largest in the area, and the first to start production of fineware (Brown 1968: p.3). It shows how the completed manufacturing mark consists of two separate stamps on different parts of the bowl (Oxé, Comfort, Kenrick 2000: p.26).

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1966.252; Ashmolean Museum (1967) no.549, pl.LXXV; Brown (1968) p.6 no.2, Plates II, IV, XIX + Figs 1, 3; Vickers (1992) p.12 fig 9.

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities 1967 Select Exhibition of Sir John and Lady Beazley’s Gifts to the Ashmolean Museum 1912-1966 London OUP Brown A.C. 1968 Catalogue of Italian Terra-Sigillata in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford Clarendon Press OxéA. ComfortH. KenrickP. 2000, 2nd edn Corpus Vasorum Arretinorum. A Catalogue of the Signatures,Shapes and Chronology of Italian Sigillata Bonn Rudolf Habelt GMBH = OCK Vickers M. 1992 The Ancient Romans Oxford Ashmolean Museum