Roman - Samian ware (5.TS.FR.EGAUL.0003)
- Category
- Samian ware (Roman)
- Fabric name
- La Madeleine samian (MAD SA)
- Chronology
- Roman > Middle Roman
- Dating method(-s)
- fabric + decoration
- Potters' mark
- No
- Additional information
-
sample from body sherd Drag. 37, decorated in the style of the Ware mit Eierstab C: 120 - 190 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 pit OS7949; drawing number C2903 / TS1037 (Vanhoutte, De Clercq & Deschieter 2023: DS19)
Provenance
- Location
- France
- Region
- Eastern Gaul
- Supposed site(s) of production
- La Madeleine
- Additional information
- Slip
- Yes
- Slip color
- dark red to red-brown, lustrous
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- Slip
- Yes
- Slip color
- dark red to red-brown, lustrous
- Glaze
- No
- Glaze type
- Glaze color
- Glaze additives
- Additional information
- Surface color
- dark red to red-brown, lustrous slip
- Surface texture
- Smooth
- Fracture color
- red to red-brown
- Inclusions (non-plastics/tempering)
- well-sorted, very fine (<0.1mm) inclusions, dominated by abundant limestone occasionally up to 0.2mm - often including microfossils -, with sparse fine silver mica and a few dark iron-rich grains
- Matrix and voids
- very fine matrix with very small voids and some larger ones
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Pottery
- Inventory number
- 5.TS.FR.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: 2024-05-04.