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Fine red-slipped table wares produced in western Asia Minor and widely
distributed around the eastern Mediterranean (and more rarely in the
west) during the 5th and 6th centuries AD. |
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Fabric and technology
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Hard, fine textured fabric; brownish-red with purple or maroon
tinge, with thin red slip over whole surface; fine white flecks
in clean matrix.
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Forms
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Plates, bowls and dishes; principal form in Britain is Hayes type
3, a shallow bowl with short vertical wall, incorporating slight
flange, frequently stamped on inner face with crosses and other
motifs.
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Chronology
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Post-Roman in Britain, c. AD 475-550.
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Source
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Phocaea, western Asia Minor.
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Distribution
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Principally the eastern Mediterranean, but with scattered distribution
around the west, along the Atlantic seaways, to south-west Britain
and Ireland.
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Aliases
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Late Roman C.
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Aliases
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British (Tintagel) class Ai.
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Bibliography
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Source and dating: Hayes 1972, 323-70; Hayes 1980; Mayet and Picon
1986; Empereur and Picon 1986. Distribution in Britain: Thomas
1981; Fulford 1989; also Rahtz et al. 1992, 161-2.
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References
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Empereur and Picon 1986.
Empereur, J. Y. and Picon, M., 'A propos d'un nouvel atelier de
Late Roman C', Figlina, 7, (1986), pp. 143-6.
Fulford 1989.
Fulford, M. G., 'Byzantium and Britain: a Mediterranean perspective
on Post-Roman Mediterranean imports in western Britain and Ireland',
MedArch, 33, (1989), pp. 1-6.
Hayes 1972.
Hayes, J. W., Late Roman pottery, British School at Rome,
London, (1972).
Hayes 1980.
Hayes, J. W., A supplement to Late Roman Pottery, British
School at Rome, London, (1980).
Mayet and Picon 1986.
Mayet, F. and Picon, M., 'Une sigillée phocéenne tardive (Late
Roman C ware) et sa diffusion en Occident', Figlina, 7,
(1986), pp. 129-34.
Rahtz et al. 1992.
Rahtz, P. A., Woodward, A., Burrow, I., Everton, A., Watts, L.,
Leach, P., Hirst, S., Fowler, P. and Gardner, K., Cadbury Congresbury
1968-73. A late/post-Roman hilltop settlement in Somerset,
British archaeological reports. British series, 223, Tempus
Reparatum, Oxford, (1992).
Thomas 1981.
Thomas, C., A provisional list of imported pottery in Post-Roman
Britain and Ireland, Special report, 7, Institute of
Cornish Studies, Redruth, (1981).
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