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Description: | A fragment from a Roman Samian Ware vessel (AD43-AD410). The fragment is a rim sherd from a moulded bowl with a bead rim, Dragendorff form 37. Below the rim on the exterior surface there is a plain undecorated band delineated by an incised band, and below that part of a band of egg and dart decoration with a wavy line in relief below. A small portion of the main decoration in relief is visible in the corner of this sherd but it is not possible to make out what is shown because the surface is worn. The fabric is orange in colour. It is very fine and has fired hard. The exterior surface and over the rim is decorated with a dark orange-red slip. Patches of slip are missing showing where the sherd is worn - from the rim, the raised exterior decoration, and long the edge of the interior and exterior faces. The sherd measures 31.36mm wide x 40.73mm tall x 7.10mm thick. Rim diameter is difficult to determine from such a small sherd but is estimated to be 140mm. The sherd weighs 11.10g.See Laing 2003, p52 fig 63 for examples of similar Samian sherds. For similar sherds recorded on the PAS database see YORYM-1A2AC7.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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