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Class : Fine wares
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Source : Iberia
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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.160-161 of Roman Pottery in Britain (1996).
Fabric code : SPAN
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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):
- SPA CC
- Spanish Colour-coated ware p.65
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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Cups and beakers in a fine textured pale brown ware with golden-brown
slip, typically decorated with floral motifs in barbotine, produced in
southern Spain and widely distributed around the western Mediterranean
and across the north-west provinces during the 1st century AD. |
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Fabric and technology
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Hard fine pale brown or orange-brown (10YR 8/4) with orange-brown
slip (2.5YR 6/8) with a metallic sheen. Wheel-thrown. Principal
decoration is barbotine. Motifs are plant-derived (leaves, buds
or ferns) or abstract (dots, lines or scales).
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Forms
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Cups and cylindrical beakers, sometimes with pairs of small handles.
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Chronology
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Production may commence in the Tiberian period, but principal
export is AD 40-80.
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Source
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Baetica, southern Spain.
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Distribution
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Southern Spain and Gaul, north Africa, Rhineland. Occasional
in southern Britain. The Mediterranean distribution is essentially
coastal and riverine.
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Aliases
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JRPS bibliography fabric spc. Kent fine fabric 21.
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Bibliography
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Greene 1979. Mayet (1975, 147-60) discusses the ware as vases
parois fins de la Btique/ and suggests that they may be equated
with the Saguntum cups mentioned by Pliny and Martial (ibid.,
164-9). Source region is close to that of Dressel 20 amphoras,
and they were transported in the same ships (Colls et al. 1977,
111-14; Parker and Price 1981).
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References
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Colls et al. 1977.
Colls, D., Étienne, R., Lequément, R., Liou, B. and Mayet, F.,
'L'pave Port-Vendres II et le Commerce de la Bétique à l'poque
de Claude', Archaeonautica, 1, (1977), pp. 1-143.
Greene 1979.
Greene, K. T., The pre-Flavian fine wares, Report on the
excavations at Usk, 1965-1976, 1, University of Wales Press
[for] the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales,,
Cardiff:, (1979).
Mayet 1975.
Mayet, F., Les céramiques à parois fines dans la peninsule
iberique, Publications du Centre Pierre Paris, 1, Université
de Bordeaux III, Centre Pierre Paris; diffusion, E. de Boccard,
Talence; Paris, (1975).
Parker and Price 1981.
Parker, A. J. and Price, J., 'Spanish exports of the Claudian
period: the significance of the Port-Vendres II wreck reconsidered',
IntJNautA, 10, (1981), pp. 221-8.
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