Sigillata bowl (Lezoux) with interior stamp, Shakenoak, Oxfordshire Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1972.1441.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1972.1441 AshLI 381

Three conjoining fragments of a Samian ware bowl (0.08 0.081 0.005), with its base intact (0.057), form Dragendorff 33.

The stamp of the potter Reburrus is in the centre of the interior surface, its letters now very worn, inside a rectangular cartouche (0.003 0.022).

0.002 Shakenoak, Oxfordshire AD 140-70 (date of production) (Hartley and Dickinson 2011: vol.7, p.331). This bowl was found along with other pieces of pottery and small objects in Building A at the Roman Villa at Shakenoak Farm, North Leigh, Oxfordshire, excavated by A.C. Brodribb, A.R. Hands, and D.R. Walker. It is currently on display in the Rome Gallery. Photograph
Reburri officina

Workshop of Reburrus.

This pottery bowl was produced at Lezoux, a major centre for Samian production in central Gaul. Building A at Shakenoak was agricultural and industrial in character (with evidence for iron working) rather than domestic. The Samian ware found here was predominantly plain (Brodribb, Hands, Walker 1968: pp.13, 17-18).

Brodribb, Hands, Walker (1968) p.43 no.8; Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS. Accession Register 1972.1441; Brodribb, Hands, Walker (2005) p.23 no.8; Hartley and Dickinson 2011: vol.7, p.329, 4j

Brodribb A.C.C. Hands A.R. Walker D.R. 1968 Excavations at Shakenoak Farm, near Wilcote, Oxfordshire. Part 1: Sites A & D Privately printed Brodribb A.C.C. Hands A.R. Walker D.R. 2005 The Roman Villa at Shakenoak Farm, Oxfordshire. Excavations 1960-1976 Oxford BAR British Series 395: Archaeopress 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