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Class : Coarse wares
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Source : Italy
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Distribution in Britain
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Illustration
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Roman Pottery in Britain (Tyers 1996)
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This ware is discussed on p.158 of Roman Pottery in Britain (1996).
Fabric code : PRW2
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Platters (and accompanying lids) in a coarse micaceous ware with
red-slipped internal surface, distributed around the Mediterranean and
across the north-west provinces during the 1st century AD. |
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Fabric and technology
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Hard, harsh orange-brown (2.5YR 5-6/8) fabric with hackly texture
with patchy red slip (10R 4/6) on smoothed inner face; abundant
inclusions of white and glassy quartz, mica and occasional composite
rock fragments (a quartz-mica schist). Wheel-thrown.
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Forms
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Plain-rim dishes, some with light concentric grooves on the interior
of the base. Lids not slipped.
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Chronology
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Perhaps present at Haltern, and certainly in Augustan groups at
Valence (Drôme) and Lyon. In Britain, 1st cent. AD, and often
associated with PRW1.
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Source
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The least well understood of the widely distributed PRW fabrics.
Peacock suggested a Mediterranean source, and further examples
have been identified from Sidi Khrebish (Libya): Kenrick 1983,
321, B481.2, B482.2; Settefinestre (Italy): Celuzza 1985, tav.31.3;
Impasto 3; Lambaesis (Algeria): Unpublished, and Paphos (Cyprus):
Hayes 1991, 79. fig.28 middle, 1.
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Aliases
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Colchester fabric CSOB. Gloucester fabric TF16B.
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Bibliography
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Peacock 1977, 153.
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References
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Celuzza 1985.
Celuzza, M. G., Settefinestre. Una villa schiavistica nell'Etruria
romana. La villa ei suoi reperti, Edizioi Panini, Modena,
(1985), pp. 107-15.
Hayes 1991.
Hayes, J. W., Paphos III. The Hellenistic and Roman pottery,
Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, Nicosia, (1991).
Kenrick 1983.
Kenrick, P. M., Excavations at Sidi Khrebish Benghazi (Berenice).
III, Part 1: The fine pottery, Supplements to Libya Antiqua,
5, Department of Antiquities, Tripoli, (1983).
Peacock 1977.
Peacock, D. P. S., 'Pompeian red ware' in Pottery and early
commerce. Characterization and trade in Roman and later ceramics,
ed. D. P. S. Peacock, Academic Press, London, (1977), pp. 147-62.
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