Inscribed Beakers from Verulamium

SALVE, EDVARDE! A Toast to the Jubilee of Professor E. Krekovič, 2019

The earth-and-timber fort at Iža (175-179 AD), the bridgehead of the legionary fortress of Brigetio, produced a terra sigillata beaker (Drag. 54) with rare barbotine decoration. The decoration consists of floral motifs resembling ears or pods on arched stalks. The closest parallels to this decoration are not found among terra sigillata finds, but among globular and tulip-shaped beakers, which belong to the fine dark-colour-coated pottery (ʻRhenish wares'). Based on the known parallels, mainly from the territory of Gaul, and the context recorded at Iža, the beaker with barbotine decoration from this site can be considered to be a Central Gaulish product, most likely made in Lezoux, and dated to the Late An-tonine period.

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The English edition of my PhD thesis (originally in Dutch, 1995) on the South Gaulish terra sigillata with potters' stamps from the site of the Roman fort at Bunnik-Vechten. In its final building phase from the late 2nd and 3rd centuries AD the fort measured c. 2.6 ha and presumably accommodated ala I Thracum. The fort(s) of the 1st and early 2nd centuries - when the South Gaulish terra sigillata arrived - may have been larger. The site has produced one of the largest collections of terra sigillata in the Northwest, as demonstrated by the 4797 stamped South Gaulish vessels discussed in this thesis. In a collection of this size chronological trends and other patterns may be distinguished which remain invisible in smaller samples. The study includes an extensive discussion of the evolution of the stamped forms and of the organization of their production. The stamp catalogue differs in three respects from the more recent corpus of Hartley and Dickinson (2008-2012): 1) all variants are discussed individually; 2) illiterate and otherwise unidentified stamps have been included; 3) the stamps are illustrated by photos (identified stamps) or rubbings (unidentified stamps) instead of drawings.

Internet Archaeology 50. Big Data on the Roman Table: new approaches to tableware in the Roman World, 2018

This article discusses the problems surrounding the matching of South Gaulish terra sigillata shapes to the descriptions used by their potter manufacturers and modern sigillata type-series produced by scholars in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It then goes on to postulate which shapes and types of vessel might have dressed a Roman table, and how those vessels might have been used. The discussion is quantified by examples of comparative frequencies occurring at the kiln site and on export sites within a historical framework of key consumer sites.

Quaderni Friulani di Archeologia, 2015

Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt, 2010

Journal of Roman Studies, 2014

Excavations at Ficana IV. The Republican and Imperial Periods, 2012