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Savoie
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Journal of Roman Pottery
Studies
Vol 3, 1990 page 116
613 Desbat, A
& Picon, M, ‘Sigillée claire B et ‘luisante"
:classification et provenance’, Figlina 7, 1986, 5-18.
exc,col,chm,syn/ptp,trd/l50-end of 3rd/typ
tsg/nfc/orc/mrb
Normally discussions of the "imitation samian" wares
known as ‘sigillée claire B’ and ‘sigillée luisante’
(?metallic) could happily be omitted from the Bibliography, since
these are wares made and distributed almost exclusively in the
southeast of Gaul, in particular along the Rhône Valley and in
Provence. This paper, however, specifically compares the wares
in question with similar products of the New Forest and
Oxfordshire industries, and with ‘céramique à l’éponge’,
and their similarities with the products of other Romano-British
industries can be seen in the following two papers in the same
volume (see entry nos. 629 & 661). The chemical analyses
successfully separate the two types, ‘claire B’ and ‘luisante’,
into material from two sources, the former being the Rhône
Valley, and the latter being the Savoie region to the east. It
is evident that all of the wares discussed may be said to form a
substantial part of the answer to the question of what became of
samian manufacturing after the end of Central Gaulish
domination.
Journal of Roman Pottery
Studies
Vol 4, 1991 page 118
629
Groupe de travail sur les sigillées claires, ‘Céramiques
tardives à revêtement argileux des Alpes du nord et de la vallée
du Rhône (de Martigny à Vienne)’, Figlina 7, 1986,
19-49. See also entry no. 613).
exc,col,syn/ptp,trd/late 2nd-4th/typ
tsg (‘Claire B’ and ‘luisante’)
As with entry no. 613, the subject of this paper is one which
would not normally be included in the Bibliography, as it is
well outside the sphere of pottery found in Roman Britain. Yet
the illustrations clearly demonstrate a number of obvious links
with pottery made in Britain. The paper is the result of a joint
effort (from 1977 to 1981) of roughly twenty researchers working
at sites in the Savoie region, in the Lyons region, near Geneva
and around Lake Geneva as far north as Avenches, and at points
in between these places. The vessels most similar to
Romano-British products are wall-sided bowls with scroll-like
painted decoration, which might as easily have been made either
in the New Forest or Oxfordshire (Young form C69); also plates
with broad curving rim (Young form C48). There are numerous
examples of Drag 30/37-shaped bowls with circular stamped
decorations very similar to the East Anglian products which
appear to imitate London ware (cf. Rodwell, in Arthur &
Marsh, Figs. 7.10-7.13). Finally there are beakers there are
beakers which are typologically indistinguishable from 3rd and
4th century ‘Rhenish’ forms. See also entry no. 661.
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