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Class : Fine wares
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Source : Germany
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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.150-151 of Roman Pottery in Britain (1996).
Fabric code : MARM
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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):
- LOR MA
- Lower Rhineland Marbled ware p.58
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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Jugs and flagons in a fine slipped ware decorated with darker marbled
decoration produced in the Mosel region (DE) and distributed across the
lower Rhine and south-east Britain during the 3rd and 4th centuries
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Fabric and technology
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A very hard smooth-textured creamy-buff or pink fabric (7.5YR
8/4 to 2.5YR 6/8) perhaps with a grey or orange core, with sparse
coarse inclusions of irregular brown clay pellets, glassy quartz
and occasional black (volcanic?) grains. Wheel-thrown. The
mottled matt slip is normally a shade of orange or red (10R 6/6
to 5/8) but may be lighter (buff) or a darker brownish-black colour;
the marbling shows no clear patterning and the slip is often harsh
to the touch. Some vessels have white roundels or other motifs
(including simple inscriptions) overpainted on the shoulder.
In German reports this is described to as marmorierte keramik/
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Forms
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The principal forms in the ware are flagons:
a two-handled vessel with a collar on the neck.
a one-handled jug with grooves on the body.
a one-handled round-bodied flagon with offset at the shoulder.
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Chronology
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Early or mid-3rd to late 4th cent.
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Source
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The middle Rhine or lower Mosel valleys (Oelmann 1914, 50). A
second marbled fabric from kilns at Speicher and Trier and described
as flamed (/ ware is distributed in the Trier area and north into
the Ardennes and Belgium; this is not found in Britain.
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Distribution
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The middle and lower Rhine (from Mainz to Nijmegan), Kent and
the London area.
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Aliases
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Colchester fabric EESJ. Lullingstone fabrics 8 and
9. Kent fine fabric 5e.
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Bibliography
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The principal studies of the origin, dating and distribution of
the ware are the reports on the Trier Kaiserthermen and Niederbieber
(Hussong and Cüppers 1972; Oelmann 1914). The British evidence
is described by Bird and Williams (1982) with a report on the
petrology.
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References
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AML 3824 1982.
Bird, J. and Williams, D., German marbled flagons in Roman
Britain, 3824, English Heritage, London, (1982).
Hussong and Cüppers 1972.
Hussong, L. and Cüppers, H., Die Trierer Kaiserthermen. Die
spätrömische und frühmittelalterliche Keramik, Trieren Grabungen
und Forschungen, 1, P. von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, (1972).
Oelmann 1914.
Oelmann, F., Die Keramik des Kastells Niederbieber, Materialien
zur römisch-germanischen Keramik, 1, (1914).
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