Small finds processing. The pottery.

• samia vasa (Latin) - Pliny the Elder’s Historia
Naturalis (XXXV 12 (46), 160) provides us with
evidence of the wars which were considered
fashionable around the middle of the first
century A.D.
• verb samiare (Latin) – “to polish”
• The wares made in the Gaulish factories are
often referred to by English-speaking
archaeologists as samian ware.
SAMIA VASA

• terra sigillata – astringent clay from
Lemnos or Samos, formerly used as a
medicine.
• sigillum - embossed figure, relief.
• terra sigillata – clay bearing little images.
TERRA SIGILLATA

Eastern Sigillata A
Arratine
Southern Gaulish
Eastern Sigillata B (early period)
Eastern
Sigillata B
(late period)
Eastern Sigillata C (Çandarli )
African Red Slip
Ware – ARS A

Eastern Sigillata
EASTERN SIGILLATA - late hellenistic to early
Roman red-slipped tableware

Eastern Sigillata A (ESA) – Northern Syria, Antioch, Samaria.
Eastern Sigillata B (ESB) - western Asia Minor (near Tralles)
Eastern Sigillata C (ESC) - Pergamon , Çandarli
Eastern Sigillata A (ESA) – about 150 BC – 100 AD.
Eastern Sigillata B (ESB) – 10 BC – 150 AD
Eastern Sigillata C (ESC) – 150 BC – 100 AD
First production of Red Gloss ware

Main production centers in Italy
Arezzo
Terra Sigillata Arretina

Relief Terra Sigillata Italica
A decorated Arretine vase found at Neuss, Germany
Source: Wikipedia

Relief Terra Sigillata Italica is made in moulds
Mould for an Arretine , manufactured in the workshop of P. Cornelius
Source: Wikipedia

The Arretine potters regularly stamped their
names on their products in self-
advertisement – a practice previously only
sporadically employed.

These are usually quadrangular in form, though other
shapes are found, and are impressed in the midst of the
design on the ornamented vases, or on plain wares on the
bottom of the interior.

The number of potters’ names is very large

South Gaulish, late 1st century AD
Source: Wikipedia

Main Production centers in Gaul
South Gaulish
Central Gaulish
East Gaulish

The main production center in Sout Gaulia is studied in La
Graufesenque (nr Millau, Aveyron/FR)
La Graufesenque

Marbled decoration (Gloss which imitate marble)

EARLY ROMAN THIN-WALLED WARES
• Extreme thinness of the walls
• Produced in Italy starting from the late
Republican period.
• Widely exported into the first century AD.

AFRICAN RED
SLIP WARE
(ARS)
Produced in
North African
Regions

Sigillata Africana A – ARS A
80s of the 1st c. AD - first quarter of the 3rd c. AD
Sigillata Africana A/D- ARS A/D
Antonine-Severan age
Sigillata Africana C – ARS C
3rd -5th c. AD
Sigillata Africana D- ARS D
4th-7th c. AD

Province of Moesia
MOESIA SUPERIOR
Upper Moesia
(Serbia, Bulgaria)
MOESIA INFFERIOR
Lower Moesia
(Bulgaria)

Imitation of Relief Terra Sigillata

Imitations covered with black slip

Imitation of
terra sigillata
plates

Imitation of terra sigillata with decoration “à la barbotine”

Imitations of Thin walled pottery

Imitation of potters’ stamps

• No potters’ names.
• Mainly imitations of
"planta pedis".
• Decorative functions.

Imitations of terra
sigillata with
Appliqué
decoration

"Sandy" wares made in different colors

Lead-glazed Ware
Jug with spots of glaze. In
the process of production
the jug is been in touch
with glazed wares.

Lead-glazed jug with zoomorphic form

CATINI, CATILLI, MAGIDES, LANCES - Dishes

Hans Dragendorff.
Terra sigillata. Ein Beitrag zur Gescl1icl1te der griechiscl1en
und romiscl1en Keramik. Bonn, 1890.

Conspectus Formarum Terrae Sigillatae Italico Modo Confectae
Materialien zur römisch-germanischen Keramik 10. Frankfurt
am Main, 1990.

Sigfried Loeschke.
Sigillata-Töpferein in Tschandarli. Athenische Mitteilungen
37, 1912.

John Hayes.
Late Roman Pottery. Rome, 1972

Stratigraphic position
(in years)
Quantity according to
stratigraphic layers
Main types in
different periods

Carefully revealing
pottery shards.
Documenting the context.

Documenting the context.
1
2
3
4

Marking and describing the shards.

Technical drawing. Scientific illustration.

June 17– June 30
2017
Vidin
BULGARIA
www.archaeology.archbg.net

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