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Class : Mortaria
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Source : Gaul
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Distribution in Britain
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Illustration
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Source of ware
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Roman Pottery in Britain (Tyers 1996)
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This ware is discussed on p.117-118 of Roman Pottery in Britain (1996).
Fabric code : AOMO
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National Roman Fabric Reference Collection (Tomber & Dore 1998)
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Cross-reference from this group to fabric descriptions published in
The National Roman Fabric Reference Collection (1998):
- AOI WH
- Aoste, Isère White ware p.67
Illustrations of these fabrics are available only in the printed catalogue: R. Tomber & J. Dore,
The national Roman fabric reference collection. A handbook
Museum of London Archaeology Service, London. MOLAS monograph 2. (1998). |
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Mortaria manufactured at Aoste (Isère/FR) during 1st century AD; most
common in western Switzerland and Rhône valley, but small numbers
throughout Gaul, the Rhineland and Britain. |
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Photograph 1
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Fabric and technology
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Hard, smooth, fine-textured cream-coloured (10YR 8/2 to 5Y 8/2)
fabric with conchoidal fracture; abundant fine quartz and white
limestone and sparse red and black particles and mica. Gritted
with abundant milky quartz on lower internal surface. Wheel-thrown.
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Forms
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Mortaria. Most characteristic form has relatively small diameter,
deep thin curving flange, and finely moulded spout, Gillam
236, but other hooked flange forms also produced.
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Stamps
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Stamped across the flange. Three potters are known: G. Atisius
Gratus, G. Atisius Sabinus and L. Atisius Secundus.
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Chronology
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AD 50-85.
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Source
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Aoste (Isère).
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Distribution
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Most abundant in the Saône valley, Isère and western Switzerland.
A scatter along the Rhône valley, the Rhineland, through western
and northern France; occasional in Britain.
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Aliases
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Cirencester fabric 69. Exeter mortarium fabric FC22.
Gloucester fabric TF9Z. JRPS bibliography fabric
aom. Sheepen mortarium fabric 18. Usk mortarium
fabric 7.
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Bibliography
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Hartley 1973, 46; for the kiln site: Laroche 1987.
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References
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Hartley 1973.
Hartley, K. F., 'The marketing and distribution of mortaria' in
Current research in Romano-British coarse pottery: papers given
at a C.B.A. Conference held at New College, Oxford, March 24 to
26, 1972, ed. A. Detsicas, Research reports/Council for British
Archaeology, 10, Council for British Archaeology, London,
(1973), pp. 35-91.
Laroche 1987.
Laroche, C., 'Aoste (Isère). Un centre de production de céramiques.
Fin du Ier siècle avant J.-C. - fin du Ier siècle après J.-C.
Fouilles récentes, 1983-1984', RANarb, 20, (1987),
pp. 281-348.
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