Roman - Samian ware (5.TS.DE.EGAUL.0001)
- Category
- Samian ware (Roman)
- Fabric name
- Trier samian (B) (TRI SA B)
- Chronology
- Roman > Middle Roman
- Dating method(-s)
- fabric + typology
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
- sample from rim sherd Drag. 45, with stylised lion head spout, the so-called bat-faced spout, from Trier, which can be assigned to the mid-3rd century (Bird 1993, 8): ca. 240 - 270 AD
Find location
- Site type
- Consumption site
- Location
- Belgium; West-Vlaanderen; Oudenburg
- Site name
- Oudenburg, Spegelaere
- Excavation or Survey Team
- excavation and post-excavation research by Flanders Heritage Agency, conducted by Sofie Vanhoutte
- Additional contextual information
- context: occupation level Roman fort Oudenburg; feature fort level 4 OS70032; drawing number C2659/TS0713
Provenance
- Location
- Germany
- Region
- Eastern Gaul
- Supposed site(s) of production
- Trier
- Additional information
- Slip
- Yes
- Slip color
- pale, dull orange-red
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
-
poor quality slip
The exterior of the sample is burnt to black
- Slip
- Yes
- Slip color
- pale, dull orange-red
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- poor quality slip
- Surface color
- pale, dull orange-red slip
- Surface texture
- Smooth
- Fracture color
- very pale, white to yellowish-cream coloured fabric
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- abundant to very abundant limestone inclusions (up to 1 mm), well-sorted, rounded to subrounded
- Matrix and voids
- very dense matrix, smooth fracture, sparse small voids
- Diagnostic features
- abundant to very abundant limestone inclusions
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 5.TS.DE.EGAUL.0001
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed
- Host collection
- Onroerenderfgoeddepot agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Archaeological Excavation
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Last modified: 2024-04-30.