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Description: | A fragment of a Roman ceramic vessel; the base of a Samian Ware bowl. The vessel has a foot ring of 10cm diameter of which about a third survives. The centre of the base inside the vessel is raised, sloping downwards to the edge of the base and then the wall curves upwards. The inside of the vessel is decorated with rouletted short lines in two bands. There is a thumbprint in the slip on the outside of the foot ring. The fabric is orange and uniform with a red slip. There are very occasional small white inclusions. The fragment is 80.87mm long, 57.2mm wide and the wall is 8mm thick. The foot ring is 15mm tall and 7.34mm thick at the base. The sherd weighs 54.4g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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