'Verulamium' Roman Redware Bowl with Maker's Mark

1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

6 7/8 in. (375 grams, 17.5 cm wide).

Shallow bowl with flared sidewall and low foot; stamped to the centre 'T[...]I'; old collector's card: 'Samian ware Roman dish of Dragendoff 18/31 form i.e. a plate with a low [?] or less oblique and slightly rounded wall, and a semi-circular lip. Perfect save for a small fragment missing from just beneath the rim...Potters mark in centre I.A.....M possibly IANVA M i.e. IANVARIS of [?], period Domitian-Hadrian- St Christopher's Place, 20/5/59'. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found at St Alban's, Hertfordshire, UK, in the late 1950s.
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.

Accompanied by an old handwritten identification card written by Peter Clayton.

CONDITION

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