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33 Gironde
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Journal of Roman Pottery
Studies
Vol 3, 1990 page 113
590 Bémont, C, ‘La Fosse Malayal
1 (La Graufesenque) traitement numérique’, Rei Cretariae
Romanae Fautores, Ada XXV/XXVI, 1987, 33 1-342.
exc,syn,/ptp/lst
sts/tsg
The Fosse Malaval, also known as the Fosse de Gallicanus, was a
large pit excavated in 1978 at La Graufesenque, which contained
roughly 8300 vessels, mostly samian. It was probably filled in
less than six months, somewhere between 50 and 60 AD. This paper
is a statistical study of some correlations the dimensions
within the forms present, in particular the correlations between
rim and base diameters, and between vessel height and rim
diameter. These correlations demonstrate the remarkable
homogeneity which was achieved by La Graufesenque potters,
during this peak period of production.
Journal of Roman Pottery
Studies
Vol 5, 1992 page 144
1182 Berthault, F, '
Amphore à fond plat et vignoble à Bordeaux au ler siècle', Revue
Aguitania, 6, 1988, 157-166. With an appendix, 'Annexe:
analyses et classification', by M Picon & A Desbat. See also
entry no. 1183.
syn.chm/---/Ist-early 2nd/---
aga
Abstract: "The Pascual 1 amphora is followed by the Dressel
2-4 type in Bordeaux, and by a flat bottom amphora obviously
from the Bordeaux region.
"The disappearance of the Pascual 1 amphora can be
interpreted as the consequence of the founding of the Bordeaux
wine region during the first half of the first century. This is
corroborated during the last third of this century by the
emergence of the local flat bottom amphora which could well be
the vessel for the Biturica praised by the Latin authors."
Such flat-bottomed amphorae seem to have been made at a number
of relatively small-scale production centres which now can be
seen to stretch from Bordeaux in the south-west of Gaul to
Verulamium and other sites in Britain, and to Gueugnon (see
entry no. 1219) to the east, and including sites on the lower
Loire Valley and in Normandie. The forms are remarkably similar,
considering the huge area of production.
Journal of Roman Pottery
Studies
Vol 5, 1992 page 153
1236 Santrot, M-H
& J, 'Soubran et Petit-Niort (Charente-Maritime),
concurrence "organisée" entre potiers d'ateliers
ruraux spécialisés', SFECAG, Actes du Congrés de Cognac, 1991,
83-98.
exc,syn,chm/ptp,kln/75-150/usf
lox/lcg/mro/occ/stv/mrb
Soubran and Petit-Niort are twin villages which lie almost
exactly halfway between Bordeaux and Saintes. This is a study of
two recently identified pottery production centres at a distance
of some four kilometres apart, which appear to have produced
similar series of coarse tablewares, but which seem to have
co-operated in the marketing of their products. The two
illustrated ranges of wares are not identical, but at both sites
one of the most important products was a large pinched-mouthed
flagon, and both series also include cornice-rimmed, bag-shaped
beakers. A section on chemical analyses of the fabrics shows
that they are chemically separable, although visually this is
often not the case. It was the results of the
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analyses which led, therefore,
to the realisation that the marketing of the respective series
was not competitive, since Petit-Niort products are found at
Saintes and elsewhere in Saintonge, while Soubran products are
found mainly at Bordeaux and elsewhere to the south.
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