Roman - Samian ware (5.TS.DE.EGAUL.0004)
- Category
- Samian ware (Roman)
- Fabric name
- Trier samian (A) (TRI SA A)
- Chronology
- Roman > Middle Roman
- Dating method(-s)
- fabric + stamp
- Potters' mark
- Yes
- Additional information
-
the 'classic' red Trier fabric;
sample from complete profile Drag. 32, with stamp IVCV[, from Iucundus v of Trier (NOTS, vol. 4, 316, die 1c): 160 - 260 (?) 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; fire layer fort level 4 OS8905B; drawing number C1438 / TS1005 - S120 (Vanhoutte, De Clercq & Deschieter 2023: stamp SS20)
Provenance
- Location
- Germany
- Region
- Eastern Gaul
- Supposed site(s) of production
- Trier
- Additional information
- Slip
- Yes
- Slip color
- smooth, lustrous red to red-brown
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- slip of good quality
- Slip
- Yes
- Slip color
- smooth, lustrous red to red-brown
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- slip of good quality
- Surface color
- lustrous red to red-brown slip
- Surface texture
- Smooth
- Fracture color
- red to orange-brown/pink-brown
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- abundant ill-sorted limestone (mostly <0.1mm, but ranging to 0.5mm, with even distribution of the larger inclusions; other inclusions are common black iron-rich grains in a similar size range and sparse fine silver mica
- Matrix and voids
- hard fabric with smooth fracture, with ovoid and channel-shaped voids
- Diagnostic features
- very red fabric with 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.0004
- 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.