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LOT 0642
Roman Samian Ware Sherd with Inscription
2ND CENTURY A.D.
4 3/4 in. (140 grams, 12 cm).
Bowl fragment in burnished redware with high-relief swags and gadroons; one with epigraphic '[..]MIO' legend. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a late East Anglian teacher and antiquarian who retired to the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, UK.
He amassed a large collection of objects between the 1960s-1980s.
See Curle, J., A Roman Frontier Post and its People, Glasgow, 1911, figs.pp.223,227, pl.XLIV, for bowls with similar decoration.
FootnotesThe surface divided into panels by conventional palm-leaf ornament reports often the inscription [CINNAMI]. The letter here left could be the end of the stamp CINNAMI, if we consider the last letter O just an ornament. His work was common throughout Gallia and Britannia. He belongs to a period of great activity at Lezoux, but also to a time when the potteries on the Rhine had to some extent displaced the wares of the south. In Scotland we must associate his wares with the Antonine occupation.
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