Roman - Samian ware (5.TS.DE.EGAUL.0002)
- Category
- Samian ware (Roman)
- Fabric name
- Rheinzabern samian (RHZ SA)
- Chronology
- Roman > Middle Roman
- Dating method(-s)
- fabric + decoration
- Potters' mark
- Yes
- Additional information
- sample from rim sherd Drag. 37, decorated by the Rheinzabern group Iulius II - Iulianus I (active in 220-255 AD) and with intradecorative stamp ]VLIVS retrograde (= Iulius viii of Rheinzabern) (NOTS vol. 4, 325/339): 220 - 255 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; fort level 2, cross joining sherds from different features: OS82765, OS82763, OS81902; drawing number C0071-0201-2113/TS0049 (Vanhoutte, De Clercq & Deschieter 2023: DS118)
Provenance
- Location
- Germany
- Region
- Eastern Gaul
- Supposed site(s) of production
- Rheinzabern
- Additional information
- Slip
- Yes
- Slip color
- smooth, lustrous light-orange to orange-brown
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- slip of good quality
- Slip
- Yes
- Slip color
- smooth, lustrous light-orange to orange-brown
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- slip of good quality
- Surface color
- smooth, lustrous light-orange to orange-brown slip
- Surface texture
- Smooth
- Fracture color
- orange-brown to orange-yellowish
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- moderate to abundant well-sorted, rounded to subrounded limestone inclusions, with some larger iron-rich grains (red to black)
- Matrix and voids
- very dense, fine matrix with some rounded to subrounded (<3mm) and some small long voids
- Diagnostic features
- moderate to abundant well-sorted small limestone inclusions together with a few iron-rich grains
- Additional information
- Cf. Tomber & Dore 1998
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.H3
- Original inventory nr.
- A0213
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Matrix
- Inclusions
- Voids
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 5.TS.DE.EGAUL.0002
- 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: 2024-05-02.