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The Potter Petrecvs and his Connexions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2011
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The work of Petrecvs has been discussed by Déchelette and Oswald, both of whom ascribed it to the early Central Gaulish workshops at Lezoux.
A bowl at Guildhall Museum, stamped by this potter and seen by Stanfield (fig. 2), clearly the work of a South Gaulish artist, came to the notice of Oswald too late for publication. However, his manuscript notes, on the basis of Stanfield's rubbings, leave no doubt that he realized that the vase recorded by Déchelette from Lezoux was not made at that site. L'Abbé Cérès noted the stamp PETR from La Graufesenque.
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page 147 note 1 Déchelette, vol. i, p. 5.
page 147 note 2 Oswald, Journal of Roman Studies, vol. xxvii, pt. 2, p. 214.
page 147 note 3 Professor Birley kindly provided rubbings from the Stanfield collection.
page 147 note 4 Information from Professor Frere and Mr. B. R. Hartley, F.S.A.
page 147 note 5 Op. cit., vol. i, p. 199.
page 147 note 6 Hermet, p. 212.
page 147 note 7 Oswald, Index of Figure Types on Terra Sigillata, 1937.
page 147 note 8 Cf. Stanfield and Simpson, Central Gaulish Potters, 1958, p. xxxiii.
page 147 note 9 Richborough IV, p. 169. The reproduction of the bowl concerned by permission of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
page 149 note 1 Knorr, Die Terra-Sigillata-Gefässe von Aislingen, 1913, Taf. xi, no. 9.
page 149 note 2 Hermet, pl. 85, no. 4.
page 149 note 3 Knorr 1952, Taf. 66D.
page 149 note 4 Cf. Hermet, pls. 73 and 74.
page 149 note 5 Two very similar sherds with festoon designs may be connected: Richborough IV, pl. lxxvi, no. 24, and Hermet, pl. 60, no. 22. Both have the pomegranate pendant-end, and the 13-pointed star of fig. 8, below. The medallions are not very different from figs. 3 and 8.
page 149 note 6 Knorr 1952, Taf. 10D, Knorr 1919, Taf. 68.
page 149 note 7 Knorr 1952, Taf. 10D.
page 149 note 8 Ibid., Tafs. 3A and 51A.
page 150 note 1 This curious juxtaposition is reminiscent of the buttons with ‘head medallions’ discussed by the late Dr. Corder and Professor Richmond in the Antiquaries Journal, vol. xxx, pp. 68–70. Palm fronds are used to the right of the face in these buttons, and once more the significance is not obvious.
page 150 note 2 Cf. Ch. Philippe de Schaetzen and Michel Vanderhoeven, La Terra Sigillata à Tongres, 1955, vol. i, pl. xx, no. 15, for a similar leaf. M. Vanderhoeven sent a rubbing of this sherd which seems to show that the stamp, read as PER[RVS should be either PET[RECVS or a variant of this name. The stamp in fig. 2 has a slight horizontal bar at the centre of the letter T, at which point both it and the Tongres stamp are broken. The Tongres stamp has not got the crossbar of the letter T extant, and the central bar is a little more pronounced. Perhaps the full reading of both stamps has the T and R ligatured, certainly they are from one die.
page 150 note 3 Hermet, pl. 63, no. 21.
page 150 note 4 Knorr 1952, Taf. 10D and G.
page 151 note 1 Ibid., G.
page 151 note 2 Pls. 106, nos. 12–18.
page 151 note 3 Knorr 1919, Taf. 13B, and detail 12.
page 151 note 4 Hermet, pl. 106, no. 16 and Déchelette, vol. i, p. 294, no. 144.
page 152 note 1 Thanks are due to all the curators of the collections which have provided the actual sherds for this study, to Mr. Hartley for his valuable advice and to Mr. Bernard Barr who undertook a great deal of hard work to recover individual sherds. The drawings are by Mr. David Neal.