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Description: | Large worn rim sherd from a wheel made Roman food preparation bowl, or mortarium, probably dating from the 1st to 3rd century AD. The fragment has a hard,fine-textured fabric of light pink/brownish-cream, with red-stained quartz and occasional larger red and black inclusions. The inclusions are concentrated on the inner edge which would have been used for grinding. The broad rim has no bead; the edge has been abraded heavily. A stamp remains on the outer edge of the rim; it appears to read ALBIN[..]. Bedoyere (2000 p, 41) suggests this stamp belongs to Albinus and dates to AD. 60-90.The fragment is 124.2mm long, 41.9mm wide, 24.1mm thick and weighs 145.6 grams.
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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