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Two Rare Late Samian Vessels from Southern England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2015

Joanna Bird
Joanna Bird*
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Abstract

This paper considers two vessels, one found at Silchester in Hampshire, the other at Flexford, near Guildford in Surrey. Both are products of the samian workshops at Rheinzabern and both owe their design to metal prototypes. Neither has any apparent known parallel for its combination of form and decoration and both are a valuable reminder that even in such a large enterprise as the samian potteries individual forms could be made, perhaps in response to a specific request or as experiments by the potters. They also form an important contribution to our knowledge of late samian ware in Britain and add to previous evidence for the use of samian in ritual contexts.

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samianRheinzabernbarbotine decorationincised decorationmetal prototypesritual use: SilchesterFlexford
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Britannia , Volume 46 , November 2015 , pp. 37 - 54
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 

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