Roman - Samian ware (5.TS.DE.EGAUL.0003)
- Category
- Samian ware (Roman)
- Fabric name
- Trier samian (C) (TRI SA C)
- Chronology
- Roman > Middle Roman
- Dating method(-s)
- fabric + stamp
- Potters' mark
- Yes
- Additional information
- sample from Drag. 31 fragment with stamp MINVT\[, from Minutus of Trier (NOTS, vol. 6, 113-115, die 3a), 170 - 250 AD, but dated by Frey 1993, 62 around the middle of the 3rd century
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; layer fort level 4 OS71334; drawing number C2873 / TS1007 - S081 (Vanhoutte, De Clercq & Deschieter 2023: stamp SS22)
Provenance
- Location
- Germany
- Region
- Eastern Gaul
- Supposed site(s) of production
- Trier
- 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
- pale orange to pink
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- many limestone inclusions, fragments of quartz, some silver coloured mica and black inclusions, possibly iron oxides
- Matrix and voids
- dense matrix with often large ovoid or straight voids
- Diagnostic features
- abundant to very abundant limestone inclusions
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH1.L1.H4
- Original inventory nr.
- A0214
- 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.0003
- 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.