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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.138-139 of Roman Pottery in Britain (1996).
Fabric code : MOSL
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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):
- MOS BS
- Moselkeramik Black-slipped ware p.60
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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Beakers and cups in a fine black-slipped ware, commonly decorated with
rouletted or barbotine decoration, produced in the Trier region
(Rheinland-Pfalz/DE) and widely distributed in lower Germany and
Britain during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. |
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Fabric and technology
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Very hard, fine-textured fabric; distinct 'sandwich' of dark red
(10YR 4/6 to 2.5YR 4/6) with grey margins, with glossy black slip,
which may have a dark grey-green metallic lustre; fine white limestone
flecks in the matrix, with some quartz sand -- not noticeably
micaceous (cf. CGBL). Decoration includes fine rouletted bands,
white slip or barbotine (applied above the dark slip) and folding
or indentations.
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Forms
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Beakers are most abundant and widespread forms, but flagons, flasks,
cups and other more exotic shapes also produced. White painted
scrolls, groups of dots -- representing bunches of grapes -- wavy
lines and other abstract motifs, are particularly characteristic
of this group, which may be combined with short texts ('motto
beakers') which frequently allude to some aspect of drinking behaviour
(e.g. BIBE, MISCE etc/
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Description
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Gillam
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Globular beakers
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1
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plain
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2
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round/oval indentations
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5
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long narrow indentations
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44/45
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3
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folded
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46
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Beakers with white barbotine decoration
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plain
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4
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round/oval indentations
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long narrow indentations
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Shoulderless beaker
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6-7
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plain
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Table 1. Principal Trier black-slipped
ware forms
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Chronology
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AD 180-250. Production of black-slipped wares at Trier continues
into 4th cent., but not exported.
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Source
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Principally from workshops at Trier, in the Mosel valley. Oelmann
(1914) illustrates material from the production sites.
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Distribution
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Common in the Mosel valley, middle and lower Rhine, with a scatter
to the south and east, but rare west of the Saône. Widespread
in Britain, but not consistently distinguished from CGBL in some
published reports.
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Aliases
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Conflated with CGBL in JRPS bibliography as rhn.
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Aliases
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Caister-on-sea fabric MOSL-31. Carlisle fabric 342.
Chelmsford fabric 9. Colchester fabrics CLNF and
CLNG. Gestingthorpe fabric C1. Lullingstone fabric
7. Old Penrith fabric 13. Kent fine fabric 5d.
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Bibliography
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For description of fabric and differentiation from Central Gaulish
black slipped ware: Brewster 1972 (Greene 1978a; Greene 1978b;
Richardson 1986, 118-21; type-series: Symonds 1992, 46-62; for
inscriptions: Bös 1958; Symonds 1992, 112-21, with refs. RIB
ii.6/ 2498.
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References
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Bös 1958.
Bös, M., 'Aufschriften auf rheinischen Trinkgefässen der Römerzeit',
KölnJbVFrühGesch, 3, (1958), pp. 20-5.
Brewster 1972.
Brewster, N. H., 'Corbridge: It's significance for the study of
Rhenish ware', ArchAeliana4, 50, (1972), pp. 205-16.
Greene 1978a.
Greene, K. T., 'Roman trade between Britain and the Rhine provinces:
the evidence of pottery to c. AD 250' in Roman shipping and
trade: Britain and the Rhine provinces, ed. J. du Plat Taylor
and H. Cleere, Research reports/Council for British Archaeology,
24, Council for British Archaeology, London, (1978), pp.
52-8.
Greene 1978b.
Greene, K. T., 'Imported fine wares in Britain to AD 250: A guide
to identification' in Early fine wares in Roman Britain,
ed. G. D. Marsh and P. R. Arthur, British archaeological reports.
British series, 57, BAR, Oxford, (1978), pp. 15-30.
Oelmann 1914.
Oelmann, F., Die Keramik des Kastells Niederbieber, Materialien
zur römisch-germanischen Keramik, 1, (1914).
Richardson 1986.
Richardson, B., 'The Pottery' in The Roman quay at St. Magnus
House London: excavations at New Fresh Wharf, Lower Thames Street,
London, 1974-16, ed. Miller, LAMAS Special Paper, 8,
LAMAS, London, (1986), pp. No 1.164-68.
Symonds 1992.
Symonds, R. P., Rhenish wares. Fine dark coloured pottery from
Gaul and Germany, Oxford University Committee for Archaeology.
Monograph, 23, Oxford, (1992).
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