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Cosa:The ItalianSigillata

Memoirsof the AmericanAcademyin Rome

Supplementary VolumeIII

Support for this publication was provided by the Lucy Shoe Meritt, FAAR '37, '50, Publication Fund of the AmericanAcademy in Rome.

Cosa The ItalianSigillata

MariaTeresaMarabiniMoevs

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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrievalsystem, or transmittedin any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher. A CIP catalogrecordfor this book is availablefrom the BritishLibrary. Libraryof Congress Cataloging-in-PublicationData MarabiniMoevs, MariaTeresa, 1926Cosa: the Italian sigillata/ MariaTeresaMarabiniMoevs. p. cm. - (Memoirsof the AmericanAcademy in Rome. Supplementaryvolume; 3.) Includes bibliographicalreferences. ISBN-13: 978-0-472-11551-8 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-472-11551-0 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Excavations (Archaeology)-Italy-Cosa (Extinct city)-Catalogs. 2. Pottery, 3. Pottery,Roman-Italy-Cosa (Extinct Arretine-Italy-Cosa (Extinct city)-Catalogs. city)-Catalogs. 4. Grosseto (Italy: Province)-Antiquities, Roman-Catalogs. I. Title. II. Series. DG70.C63M327 937'.5-dc22

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CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS

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PART I. THE UNDECORATED SIGILLATAWARE

Maps 1 The Origin: The Late Republican Period A From CampanaBlack to Sigilata Red Capitolium Filling Cesspool in West Block House House of the Skeleton House of the Birds, Construction Level B From TransitionalSigillatato Early "Arretine" West Wall Dump Atrium Building I, Room 16, Levels II-III Atrium Building I, Room 11, Level II 2 The Coming of Age: The Augustan Period House of the Birds, Room 4 Filling Street M Sewer Dump at the Northwest Corner of the Basilica,Levels II, I 3 The Maturityand Later Years:The Julio-ClaudianPeriod Atrium Building I, Room 25 Atrium Building I, Room 22, Level II Atrium Building I, Room 22, Level I

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PART II. THE DECORATED SIGILLATAWARE

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The Decorated Arretine Ware The Beginning of Decorated Arretine The Workshop of Rasinius Rasinius-Memmius Rasinius TentativelyAttributed to the Workshop of Rasinius

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7 The Workshop of Perennius The Perennius-Perennius TigranusPeriod The BargathesPeriod The Late Phase TentativelyAttributed to the Workshop of Perennius 8 Other MajorWorkshops The Workshop of Cn. Ateius The Workshop of the Annii The Workshop of P. Cornelius 9 The Minor Workshops The Workshop of Vibienus The Workshop of L. Pomponius Pisanus The Workshop of C. Tellius 10 Not Attributed to a Specific Workshop

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The Late Italian Sigillata

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2: The South Gaulish Sigillata

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PART III: PLATES COLORPLATES

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Photographs whose origin is not identified are the property of either the American Academy in Rome or the author.

Maps I II III IV

Cosa, town plan. Excavated area of habitations. House of the Birds. Northwest side of Forum. Atrium Building II, northwest entrance to the Forum, Atrium Building I. V Atrium Building I. East portion.

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Figures 1 Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Antiquarium,inv. no. 106299. Head of Apollo citharoedus. 2 Denarius of Q. Pomponius Musa. Head of Apollo. 3 Cosa, "Augustanmedallion bowl." Head of Apollo. 4 Denarius of A. Allienus. Head of Venus. 5 London, British Museum, Campanaplaque. Venus carriedon a swan. 6 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 11066. Base of a chalice signed CERDO/RASINI. 7 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 11066. Stamp CERDO/RASINI. 8 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, mold inv. no. 15093. Fragmentof Italo-Megarianmold. 9 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum. Fragmentof chalice with an altar. 10 Arezzo,ArchaeologicalMuseum,inv.no. 11049. Fragmentof chalicesigned SECVND/RASINI. 11 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 11049. Stamp SECVND/RASINI. 12 Arezzo, Archaeological Museum, inv. no. 8979. Fragmentof mold. Statuette of Priapus. 13 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 9127. Mold signed RASIN. Winged figure on acanthus calyx. 14 Arezzo, Archaeological Museum, inv. no. 9034. Fragment of mold attributedto Rasinius. 15 Rome, Villa Giulia Museum. Red-figuredvase signed by Syriscos. Peplophoros Nike on palmette. 16 Hildesheim, R6mer Pelizaeus Museum, inv. no. 1137. Stucco frieze from Mit-Rahine. 17 Arezzo, Archaeological Museum. Fragmentof jug. Head of Silenus.

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18 Arezzo,ArchaeologicalMuseum,inv.no. 4494. Fragmentof mold signedPHARNACESRASIN. 19 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 15028. Fragmentof mold attributedto Rasinius. 20 Formerlyin Berlin, Antiquarium,inv. no. 30414. Fragmentwith figure of kanephoros. 21 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 8332. Fragmentof chalice attributedto Rasinius.Figure of kanephoros. 22 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, mold inv. no. 4466. Detail of dancing figure attributedto Rasiniusworkshop. 23 Bologna, ArchaeologicalMuseum, Palagiinv.no. 450. Silverkalathos.Scene of cult to Artemis. 24 Bologna, ArchaeologicalMuseum. Palagi kalathos. Left group of figures. 25 Mariemont,Museum. Head from Hermopolis Magna identified as Queen Berenice II. 26 Bologna, ArchaeologicalMuseum. Palagi kalathos. Centralgroup of figures. 27 Bologna, ArchaeologicalMuseum. Palagi kalathos. Figure of dancer. 28 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. nos. 5168, 8980, 8981. Mold signed PHARNACES RASINI. Maiden attaching a ribbon to a garlandof fruit. 29 Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, inv. no. 1072. Stucco figure from Villa delia Farnesina. 30 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 15131. Fragment of mold attributedto Rasinius.Winged figure. 31 U.S.A., private collection. Fragmentwith stamp EPAPHRA RASIN. 32 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 9022. Fragmentfrom a mold signed QUARTIO RASINI. 33 Paris, Musee du Louvre. Attic chous by the Nikias Painter. Parody of Herakles driven to Olympus. 34 Paris, Musee du Louvre, inv. no. 858. Base from Messene. Lion hunt. 35 Arezzo, Archaeological Museum. On the left, fragment of mold inv. no. 8777, Muse E. On the right, fragment of mold inv. no. 8768 signed by CERDO PERENNI, Herakles, Muses A, Bi, Cl. 36 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 4933. Fragmentof mold. Herakles, Muse A. 37 Graphic reconstructionof group of Herakles and the Muses. 38 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 8784. Fragmentof mold. Muses El-2. 39 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 8769. Cast from mold. Signatureof M. Perennius Tigranuson the open roll held by Muse C2. 40 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 8366. Mold by M. Perennius Tigranus. Sleeping man and warning woman. 41 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 4626. Cast from mold signed by Nicephorus. Woman who grasps the chin of her companion. 42 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 2108. Mold signed by Nicephorus. Boy behind curtain. 43 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 75839(?). Mold signed by Nicephorus. Sleeping man, warning woman, and boy behind curtain. 44 Plaster cast from Begram. Sleeping maenad.

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45 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 4626. Mold signed by Nicephorus. Group in neoclassical style. 46 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, inv. no. 28.861. Fragmentof mold signed by M. Perennius Tigranus.Weeping woman. 47 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 15201. Fragment of mold attributedto Rasinius.Bukephalion. 48 Tiubingen,inv. no. 2550. Mold fragment attributedto the late phase of the workshop of M. Perennius. Figure of Hora. 49 (a) Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 4956. Fragment of mold signed by Bargathes.Scene from a mime. (b) Detail. 50 London, British Museum. Campanaplaque. Perseus beheading Gorgon. 51 London, British Museum, WaltersCat. L 54. Chalice from Capua signed by Ateius. Horai. 52 Florence, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 96302. Chalice by the workshop of Ateius. Hora with a lapful of fruit. 53 Florence, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 96303. Chalice by the workshop of Ateius. Hora with phiale and kid. 54 Florence, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 96306. Chalice by the workshop of Ateius. Huntress Hora. 55 Florence, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 96232. Chalice signed by Ateius. Penteteris. 56 Arezzo, Archaeological Museum, inv. no. 2725. Fragment of mold signed by Bargathes. Hora with palm branch (Penteteris). 57 London, British Museum, WaltersCat. L 91. Stamp by the workshop of Ateius. Hora with a lapful of fruit. 58 Haslemere, Whittal coll., formerlyLansdowne. Marble base with thiasos.

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PREFACE

a long-lastingdebtof gratitude uringthe lengthycompilationof thisbookI haveaccumulated to manyinstitutionsandpersons.I apologizein advancefor anyinvoluntary omissions. The studyof the ItalianSigillatawasentrustedto me in the summerof 1977by the lateProfessor FrankE. Brownwhenthe lateDr.HelenRussellWhite,who hadfirstundertakenthe project, foundherselfunableto continue.At thattimeit consistedof a few randomnotes,a dozenplates with profilesof plainvaseschosenfor theirgood stateof preservation,and a sizablenumberof excellentphotographsof decoratedmaterialbyJohannesFelbermeyer. Twofactorssubsequently delayedthe completionof mystudy.Thefirstwasmygrowinginterest in the iconographicsourcesof decoratedArretineceramics,whichled me to a parallelthorough examinationof the artsandcultureof theearlyHellenisticperiod,particularly in Alexandriaduring the thirdcenturyB.C.A seriesof articlesof varyinglengthandscope,in the Bollettinod'Arteand otherperiodicalsandproceedings,was the resultof two decadesof inquiryinto the originof the Arretinedecorativerepertory. The secondfactorwasthe discoveryby Dr.FrancescaPaolaPorten Palangeof a largenumberof forgedmolds,scatteredthroughoutmajormuseumsof Europeand America,whichhadbeenpreviously consideredbasiccomparative materialin anystudyof decorated Arretine.As a consequencea completerevisionof the manuscriptbecamenecessary. Firstof all,I wishto thanktheAmericanAcademyin Rome,in thepersonsof its president,Mrs. AdeleChatfield-Taylor, andits director,ProfessorLesterK.Little,fora rewarding which association, I startedin 1952asa Fulbrightscholarship recipientandcontinuedasa Fellowin Classicsin 1963-64; fromthe beginningto the presentI havebeena memberof the teamresponsiblefor the excavation andstudyof the Romancolonyof Cosa.Dr.ArcherMartin,presentlyArchaeology at the Supervisor Academy,generouslysharedwithmehisvastknowledgeof Romanceramics,tooka personalinterest in the project,andmadeits completionpossible.In my coUleague ProfessorRussellT. Scottof Bryn MawrCollegeI founda mostreliablesourceof information for the topographyandstratigraphy of Cosaandanunfailingproviderof adviceandsupport.In a spiritof collegiality andfriendshipI shared withmycolleaguesDr.AnnaMarguerite manyinquiries McCannandProfessorElizabethLydingWill, fromtheirknowledgeof theharborof Cosaandof theamphoras. benefiting Mosthelpfulin thecourse of myresearchwerethepersonnelof theAcademylibraryandin particular thepresentdirector,Miss ChristinaHuemer;the formerdirector,MissLucillaMarino;andtheformerassociatedirector,Mrs. AntonellaBucci.Dr.EricDe Sena,assistantforarchaeology, graciously cameto myaidin momentsof practicaldifficulty. Thestaffof theAmericanAcademyin Rome,particularly MissPinaPasquantonio andMrs.MarinaLella,foundfelicitoussolutionsto severalday-to-day problems. BecauseI initiatedthisresearchduringmy residenceas a memberof the Institutefor Advanced StudyinPrincetonin theyear1977-78andcontinuedafterward to takeadvantage of itsfacilities, I wish D

to expressmy deepest appreciationto its Facultyof HistoricalStudiesand to the librarypersonnel.In

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I mostgratefully remember particular, thelateProfessor HomerA.Thompson, whosponsored myproject attheInstituteandfollowedit formanyyearsafterward withgreatinterestandunfailingsupport. To my investigationinto the sourcesof decoratedArretinethe cooperationof the SoprintendenzaalleAntichitadellaToscanaandof the personnelof the Archaeological Museumof Arezzo provedto be essential.Its director,Dr.PaolaZamarchiGrassi,madeavailableto mewithexemplary liberalityandkindnessthe publishedandunpublishedmaterialin the museumon whichmy studies of decoratedwarelargelyrely.ThelateMr.DarioBartoliandafterhimMr.GiovanniOrganelli andMr.FabioAndrucci,consegnatari at the museum,facilitatedmyworkin allpossiblewayswith theirsolicitudeandcompetence. To the EditorialBoardof the Bollettinod'Arteandto its coordinatorDr. EvelinaBoreaI am indebtedfor the publicationof severalof my studieson Arretineiconography. In this connection I feel particularly obligedto Dr.LucillaDe Lachenal,who appliedherremarkable knowledgeand skillto the editingof my articles. The personnelof the Greco-RomanMuseumof Alexandriafacilitatedmy examinationof comparative materialin the summerof 1979. Rutgers,the StateUniversityof NewJersey,grantedme a sabbaticalleavein the springof 1982; its ResearchCouncilmadepossiblethe acquisitionof photographicmaterial. A grantfromtheNationalEndowment fortheHumanities in 1986-87supportedmyinvestigation of earlyHellenisticartin thelibrariesof theAmerican Academyin Rome,of theGermanArchaeologicalInstitutein Rome,of PrincetonUniversity, andof theInstituteforAdvancedStudyinPrinceton. My daughterMarinaoutlineda numberof formsatthebeginningof theproject,anda groupof students enrolledin theRomeprogramof theUniversity of NotreDameSchoolof Architecture volunteered to inkseveraldrawingsof decoratedmaterials. Thefinalversionof themanuscript wasgreatlyimproved by the constructive criticismandvaluablesuggestionsof fourreaders,twounknownandtwoknown to me, ProfessorsRussellT. ScottandLawrenceRichardson. I wishto thankparticularly the second anonymousreaderfor a painstaking examination of the text anda fullunderstanding of mywork. Thepublicationof thisbookwasgreatlyfacilitated by the interestandsupportof ElaineGazda, Professorof theHistoryof ArtattheUniversity of Michiganandcochairof theTrustees' Publications Committee of theAmerican AcademyinRome.ToMs.Margaret Lourie,editorattheKelseyMuseumof Archaeology, I amverygratefulforheraccurate andskillfuleditorial work;I alsothankthegraphicartist atthesamemuseum,Ms.LoreneSterner, forherpreciseandelegantarrangement of mydrawings. Finally,three personsare to be acknowledgedhere withoutwhose support,scientificand moral,this bookwouldnot havereachedits completion.To Dr. GiorgioRizzoI amindebtednot onlyfor his laboriousandaccurateeditorialworkbut for the advice,criticism,andimprovements he provided,derivedfromhis broadarchaeological knowledgeandhis particularexpertisein the fieldof Romanceramics. Thanksto the adviceof Dr.FrancescaPaolaPortenPalangeI wasableto navigatethe perilous watersof attributionof decoratedArretinefragments.Withremarkable altruismandpatienceshe sharedwith me much valuableinformationcontainedin her soon-to-be-published catalogueof decorativeArretinemotifsandprovidedmanysuggestionsfor the improvementof my text. To my husband,the composerRobertMoevs,I owe excellentphotographsof decoratedArretinematerialfromCosaandin the ArezzoArchaeological Museum.I owe him an evengreater debt for yearsof enduranceandunderstanding, nurturedby his unfailingfaithin the project,his generosityandlove. Spring2003

ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations of periodicals, series, and books are those adopted by the AmericanJournalof Archaeology.

ALEXANDER, Arretine = C. Alexander,ArretineRelief Ware.CVA, U.S.A. 9; MetropolitanMuseum of Art, New York (Cambridge1943). AMBROGI, ghirlande= A. Ambrogi, "Sarcofagie urne con ghirlandedella prima et'aimperiale,"RM 97 (1990) 163-96. Art decoratif= L'artdecoratifa Rome a'lafin de la republiqueet au dbAutdu principat.Tableronde, Rome 1979 (Rome 1981). ATEIUSJ fabbriche= Ateius e le suefabbriche.La produzionedi sigillataad Arezzo,aPisa e nella Gallia meridionale.Atti del SeminarioInternazionaledi Studi, Pisa 1992, AnnPisa, s. III, XXV, 1-2 (1995), 271-461. BAILEY= D. M. Bailey,A Catalogueof the Lampsin the BritishMuseum,II: Roman LampsMade in Italy (London 1980). BARGATHES= MarcusPerenniusBargathes.Tradizionee innovazionenella ceramicaaretina.Exhibition catalogue (Rome 1984). BORBEIN, Campana= A. H. Borbein, Campanareliefs.Typologischeund stilkritischeUntersuchungen, RM-EH 14 (Heidelberg 1968). BRONEER= O. Broneer, Corinth,IV, pt. 2: Terracotta Lamps (Cambridge 1930). BROWN, Architecture= F. E. Brown, "The Architecture,"in COSA II, 7-147. BROWN, Ashmolean = A. C. Brown, Catalogueof Italian Terra-Sigillata in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford 1968). BROWN, Cosa = F. E. Brown, Cosa, The Making of a Roman Town (Ann Arbor 1980). BROWN, Scavi= F E. Brown, "Scavia Cosa-Ansedonia, 1965-66," BdA 52 (1967) 37-41. CAMERON,GreekAnthology = A. Cameron, The GreekAnthologyfrom Meleagerto Planudes (Oxford 1993). CHASE, Boston = G. H. Chase, Museumof Fine Arts, Boston. Catalogueof ArretinePottery,2nd ed. (Cambridge 1975). CHASE, Loeb = G. H. Chase, The Loeb Collectionof Arretine Pottery (New York 1908). COLLINS-CLINTON,Odeum = J. Collins-Clinton, "The Neronian Odeum at Cosa and Its Sculptural Program:A NewJulio-Claudian Dynastic Group," MAAR 45 (2000) 99-130. Conspectus= E. Ettlinger et al., Conspectusformarumterraesigillataeitalico modo confectae.Materialen zur R6misch-germanischenKeramik 10 (Bonn 1990). = COSA II F E. Brown, E. H. Richardson, and L. Richardson,jr, Cosa II: The Templesof the Arx. MAAR 26 (1960). COSA III = F E. Brown, E. Hill Richardson, and L. Richardson,jr, Cosa III: The Buildings of the Forum.MAAR 37 (1993). COSA IV = V.J. Bruno and R. T. Scott, CosaIV The Houses. MAAR 38 (1993).

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COSA, Aco = M. T. MarabiniMoevs, "Aco in NorthernEtruria:The Workshopof Cusoniusat Cosa," MAAR 34 (1980) 231-80. Black Glaze = D. M. Taylor,"Cosa:Black-glazePottery,"MAAR 25 (1957) 65-193. COSA, COSA, Coins = T. V. Buttrey,"Cosa:The Coins," MAAR 34 (1980) 7-168. COSA, Lamps= C. RickmanFitch and N. Wynick Goldman, Cosa:The Lamps.MAAR 39 (1994). COSA,Megarian = M. T. Marabini Moevs, "Italo-MegarianWare at Cosa," MAAR 34 (1980) 161-227. Port = A. M. McCann et al., The Roman Port and Fisheryof Cosa (Princeton 1987). COSA, CosA, Thin WalledPottery = M. T. Marabini Moevs, The Roman Thin WalledPotteryfrom Cosa (1948-1954). MAAR 32 (1973). CRAWFORD= M. H. Crawford,Roman RepublicanCoinage (Cambridge 1974). CVArr= A. Oxe and H. Comfort, CorpusVasorumArretinorum(Bonn 1968). DRAGENDORFF= H. Dragendorff, "TerraSigillata.Ein Beitragzur Geschichte der griechischenund r6mischen Keramik,"BJb96-97 (1895) 18-155. D/W = H. Dragendorff and C. Watzinger,ArretinischeReliefkeramikmit Beschreibungder Sammlung in Tiibingen(Reutlingen 1948). E.A.A. = Enciclopediadell'arteantica classicae orientale. GIANGRANDE, Sympotic literature = G. Giangrande, "Sympotic Literature and Epigram," in L'EpigrammeGrecque(Geneva 1968) 93-174. GOUDINEAU = C. Goudineau, Fouilles de l'Ecole fran,aise de Rome a Bolsena (Poggio Moscini) 1962-1967, IV:La ceramiquear'tine lisse. MEFRA suppl. 6 (Paris 1968). ' GOUDINEAU, Aretine reliefs = C. Goudineau, "Ceramiquearetine a reliefs de Bolsena,"MEFRA 80 (1968) 167-200. GOW/PAGE, Hellenistic Epigrams= A. S. F. Gow and D. L. Page, eds., The GreekAnthology.Hellenistic Epigrams(Cambridge 1965). HACKIN, Begram= J. Hackin, Nouvelles recherchesarcheologiquesa Begram(ancienneKdpici)193940. Memoires de la Delegation Archeologique Franqaisein AfghanistanII (Paris 1954). HAHNLE = K. Hahnle, ArretinischeReliefkeramik(Stuttgart1915). = J. W. Hayes, "Sigillateorientali,"in E.A.A., Atlante delleforme ceramiche,II (Roma 1985) HAYES 1-96. Relations sigillees = B. Hoffmann, "A propos des relations entre les sigillees de La HOFFMANN, Graufesenque et les sigillees d'Italie,"in ATEIUS, fabbriche,389-402. TerraSigillata= B. Hoffmann, Die Rolle handverklicherVerfahrenbei der Formgebung HOFFMANN, reliefverzierterTerraSigillata (Berlin 1983). = KaiserAugustus und die verloreneRepublik (Mainz am Rhein 1988). KAISER AUGUSTUS KYRIELEIS, Bildnisse = H. Kyrieleis,Bildnisse der Ptolemder(Berlin 1975). LAROCCA, Ara Pacis = E. La Rocca, Ara PacisAugustae (Roma 1983). LAMBOGLIA, preliminare= N. Lamboglia,"Peruna classificazionepreliminaredella ceClassificazione ramicacampana,"Atti del I CongressoInt. di studi liguri, 1950 (Bordighera1952) 139-206. LAVIZZARI Aco = M. P. LavizzariPedrazzini, Ceramicaromanadi tradizioneellenistica PEDRAZZINI, in Italia settentrionale.Il vasellame "tipoAco" (Florence 1987). LAVIZZARI PEDRAZZINI, Arretina = M. P. Lavizzari Pedrazzini, "Ceramicaarretina. Terra sigillata tardo-italica,"in A Frova, Scavi di Luni, I: Relazionepreliminaredelle campagnedi scavo 1970-71 (Rome 1973) 283-301, 698-701, 762-67. LAVIZZARI PEDRAZZINI, PisaniDossi= M. P. LavizzariPedrazzini,La terrasigillatatardo-italica decorataa rilievonella collezionePisaniDossi del MuseoArcheologicoCivicodiMilano (Milan 1972).

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LEHNER,Trinkgefdsse= H. Lehner, "Zwei Trinkgefasseaus Vetera,"BJb 122 (1912) 421-30. = S. Loeschcke, Lampenaus Vindonissa(Zurich 1909). LOESCHCKE MEDRI,Tardo-italica= M. Medri, Terrasigillata tardoitalica decorata(Rome 1992). MOEVS,Ambracia M. T. MarabiniMoevs, "Le Muse di Ambracia,"BdA 12 (1981) 1-58. MOEVS,Caricature= M. T. MarabiniMoevs, "Eruditi,omosessuali e mimi in caricaturearretinedi

origine alessandrina,"BdA 107 (1999) 1-36. MOEVS,EphemeralAlexandria= M. T. MarabiniMoevs, "EphemeralAlexandria,"in Eius Virtutis Studiosi.Classicaland PostclassicalStudiesin Memoryof FrankEdwardBrown (Washington 1993) 123-47. MOEVS,Horai = M. T. MarabiniMoevs, "Penteterise le tre Horai nella Pompe di TolomeoFiladelfo," BdA 42 (1987) 1-36. MOEVS,Kalathos = M. T. MarabiniMoevs, "Il Kalathos alessandrinodi Bologna," BdA 22 (1983) 1-42. MOEVS,New evidence = M. T. Marabini Moevs, "New Evidence for an Absolute Chronology of Decorated Late Italian Sigillata,"AJA 84 (1980) 319-27. MOREL= J.-P Morel, Ceramiquecampanienne:les formes, BEFAR244 (Paris 1981). OCK = P. Kenrick, CorpusVasorumArretinorum,2nd ed. (Bonn 2000). OLCESE,Ceramicae archeometria= G. Olcese, ed., Ceramicaromanae archeometria:lo stato degli studi (Florence 1994). OxE,Beziehungen= A. Oxe, "R6misch-italischeBeziehungen der friiharretinischenReliefgefasse," BJb 138 (1933) 83-96. OXu,Rhein = A. Oxe, ArretinischeReliefgefdssevom Rhein. Materialenzur Romisch-Germanischen Keramik5 (Frankfurtam Mainz 1933). PORTEN PALANGE, Antiquarium= F P. Porten Palange,La ceramicaarretinaa rilievonell'antiquarium del Museo Nazionale di Roma (Florence 1966). PORTEN PALANGE, Ateius = F P. Porten Palange, "Alcune osservazionisull'officinadi Cn. Ateius di Arezzo," in ATEIUS,fabbriche,301-10. PORTENPALANGE,Fdlschungen= F. P. Porten Palange, "Filschungen aus Arezzo. Die gefalschten arretinischePunzen und Formen und ihre Geschichte," JRGZM37 (1990) 521-652. PORTEN PALANGE, Review Vannini = Review of A. Vannini, Matrici di ceramicaaretina decorata. Museo NazionaleRomano,Roma. Le Ceramiche,V, 2 by F P. Porten Palange, Gnomon 66 (1994) 67-73. PORTENPALANGE,Vibienus= F P. Porten Palange, "Vibienus,"NumAntCl 11 (1982) 193-213. PucCI, Atlante = G. Pucci, "Terrasigillata italica," in E.A.A., Atlante delle forme ceramiche,II (Roma 1985) 359-406. REINSBERG,HellenistischenToreutik= C. Reinsberg,StudienzurhellenistischenToreutik(Hildesheim 1980). RHODEN/WINNEFELD,Terrakotten = H. von Rhoden and H. Winnefeld, Die antiken Terrakotten,IV, 1-2. Arkitektonischer6mischeTonreliefsderKaiserzeit(Berlin and Stuttgart1911). Rubensohn, Hellenistisches Silbergerdt= 0. Rubensohn, Hellenistisches Silbergerdtin antiken Gypsabgiissen(Berlin 1911). = B. P. M. Rudnick, Die verzierteArretinaaus Oberadenund Haltern (Mainz 1995). RUDNICK SCOTT,Appendix = R. T. Scott, "Appendix 3. Pre-ArretinePottery from the Houses," in COSAIV 202-11. SEARCHFORALEXANDER= The Searchfor Alexander.An Exhibition (New York 1980). S.F E.C.A.GC.= Societe6francaise pour l'etude de la ceramiqueantique en Gaule

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STENICO, Aretinivasi= A. Stenico,"Aretinivasi,"in E.A.A.,I (Rome1958)608-16. Arretinae tardo-italica = A. Stenico,"Ceramicaarretinae terrasigillatatardo-italica," STENICO,

11(1959)51-61. RCRFActa, STENICO, Cispius= A. Stenico,"Sullaproduzionedi vasicon rilievidi C. Cispius,"Athenaeum33

(1955)173-217. STENICO, Liste= A. Stenico,Revisionecriticadellepubblicazioni sullaceramica arretina.Listedi at-

tribuzionidel vasellamedecoratoconrilievieditofotograficamente (Milan1960). STENICO, Matricia placca= A. Stenico,"Matricia placcaperapplicazionidi vasiarretinidel Museo

Civicodi Arezzo,"ArchCl6 (1954)43-82. STENICO, Pisani-Dossi= A. Stenico,"Ceramicaaretinaa rilievodella collezionePisani-Dossidel

MuseoNazionaledi Milano,"in Studiin onoredi A. Calderinie R. Paribeni,III (Milan andVarese1956)413-64. STENICO, Punzoni= A. Stenico,Laceramica arretina,II:Collezionidiverse.Punzonizmodelli,calchi ecc.(VareseandMilan1966). STENICO, Rasinius= A. Stenico,La ceramicaarretina,I: Museoarcheologico di Arezzo.Rasinius,I (VareseandMilan1960). Sminthe= A. Stenico,"Ifiglidi Agamennonea Sminthe,"inArtein Europa.Scrittidistoria STENICO, dell'artein onoredi EdoardoArslan(Milan1966)29-46. = S. C. Stone,"Presigillata STONE, Morgantina fromMorgantina," AJA91 (1987)85-103. = E. A. Sydenham,RomanRepublican SYDENHAM Coinage(London1952). TARAN, Art of variation= S. L. Taran,TheArt of Variationin the HellenisticEpigram(Leiden 1979). TELANAFA= S. C. Herbert,ed., TelAnafaII, 1: TheHellenisticand RomanPottery:ThePlain Wares(A.Berlin),TheFineWares(K.WarnerSlane).JRAsuppl.ser.10,11, 1 (AnnArbor 1997). = C. Troso,II ceramista TROSO aretinoPubliusCornelius. Laproduzione decorata a rilievo(Florence 1991). VANNINI,MuseoNazionale= A. Vannini,Le ceramiche, V, 2: Matricidi ceramicaaretinadecorata. MuseoNazionaleRomano(Rome1988). VIVIANI, Vasiaretini= U. Viviani,A Pasqui,et al.,I vasiaretini(Arezzo1921). = M. L. Vollenweider, VOLLENWEIDER, Steinschneidekunst Die Steinschneidekunst undihreKiinstler in spdtrepublikanischer undaugusteischer Zeit (Baden-Baden 1966). = E. Walter-Karydi, WALTER-KARYDI, Grotteskenornamentik "DieEntstehungderGrotteskenornamentikin derAntike,"RM97 (1990)137-52. B.M.Pottery= H. B. Walters,Catalogueof theRomanPotteryin theDepartments WALTERS, of Antiquities.BritishMuseum(London1908). ZEHNACKER, Moneta= H. Zehnacker,Moneta.Recherches sur l'organisation et l'artdes emissions II monetairesde la Re'publique romaine,289-3 av.J.C., (Rome1973).

Cosa:The ItalianSigillata

PART I THE UNDECORATED SIGILLATA WARE

All the materialdescribed below was unearthedbetween 1948 and 1972, in four separate areasof the town: on the Arx, outside the west wall of the city between towers 8 and 9, in the northwest corner of the Forum, and in the excavated area of privatehabitation west of the Forum. From a huge quantity of unstratifiedfinds, the entries in this catalogue representall the undecorated vases from datable contexts. The inventorynumbers in the excavation catalogue begin with the letter C for Cosa, followed by the letters A, B, C, designatingthe year.This was the practice until resumptionof excavation in 1965, when the year itself began to be used: 65, 66, 67, and so on. Colors of fabric and slip are based on Munsell Soil Color Charts(1992 revised edition).

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A. FROM CAMPANA BLACK TO SIGILLATARED ece nt laboratorytests have ascertaineduncontestable affinities of composition that unite in a ingle group of north Etruscan origin: the black slipped ware of Campana B from Cosa; the black slipped ware of the same type from Arezzo; the red sigillatafrom Arezzo, Cincelli, and Pisa; and the Late Italian Sigillata.The regional characterin the composition of all these categories is reflectedin medieval ceramicsfrom the same areasand confirmedby analysisof local clay samples.1 These laboratory tests support my previous conclusion, following a preliminaryexamination of the fine ware from Cosa, that a continuous technical evolution connects Campana B and related local wares, TaylorTypes II and IV, to transitionalsigillata,Arretine sigillata,and the metallic and orange slips found in the thin walled ware.2A further investigationof the transitionfrom black to red, based on similarityof composition in the material,seems now, at least for the territoryof Cosa, scientificallyjustified. The designation "Arretine,"when used in this work instead of the generic "Italiansigillata," refers to sigillata of north Etruscan production. Within this group the conspicuous presence of specificallyArretine materialat Cosa is attested by the many stamps of Arretineworkshops found at this site. pD

CapitoliumFilling:First Quarterof the FirstCenturyB.C. (Cap.1-17, pls. 1-2, colorpl. lA-C, mapI) As I had demonstrated and successive inquiry confirmed, the technical process of transformation from black to red slip is already attested at Cosa in the final years of the first quarter of the first

centuryB.C.3 At this time an artificialterracewas built on the Arx of Cosa between the town walls and the south and west sides of the Capitolium,possibly in connection with a defensive plan in view of an impending danger (see below p. 15). The fillingmaterialunderlyingthe rammedearthsurfaceof the terrace,explored in two successivecampaigns,1948-50 and 1965-66,4 can be dated from about the middle of the second centuryB.C. to the end of the firstquarterof the firstcenturyB.C.5 It demonstrates 1

3 SCOTT,Appendix.

J.-P. Morel and M. Picon, "Les ceramiques etrusco-campaniennes: recherchesen laboratoire,"in OLCESE, Ceramica e archeometria,41-43. This group is sharply differentiated from another that includes the products from the areas of Cales-Teano,Latium, and Bolsena. 2

COSA,

4 BROWN,Architecture, 19-22; id.,Scavi,37-39.

5 COSA, BlackGlaze,117-19, Deposit D; COSA, ThinWalled Pottery,21-22 and COSA, Megarian,172, Capitolium South trenchlevel II (Cap. ES, II); ibid., 172-74, TempleofJupiter,

Thin WalledPottery, 119-23.

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THEUNDECORATED SIGILLATA WARE

8

that in this period the three main types of black slip pottery of Italian production, CampanaA, B, and C (TaylorTypes I-III), had reached the acme of their popularity in Cosa households.6Type B, by far the best represented, "at Cosa is the black glaze pottery par excellencein the late second and first centuries."7 Though true sigillatais absent in this filling, several fragments of transitionalsigillata are included. In the past, I had tried to classify those found in the area south of the Capitolium as two technically differentiatedgroups within the same line of development from black to red.8Further investigationhas convinced me that descriptionsof technicalstages,not necessarilyin chronological succession but ratherstages of experimentationby differentworkshops,would better depict the fluidity of the process, and the term "transitionalsigillata"ratherthan "presigillata"better define it. The initial stage is represented here by fragments of uncertain technical character,in which the line separatingdeteriorationfrom innovation is blurred. The fabric is mostly hard and slightly gritty,occasionallyhard and fine or rathersoft and fine, pinkish buff in color (7.5YR7/4). The slip is normallythin and matte, varyingin color from darkreddish grayto reddishbrown (2.5YR4/2-5/4). Some metallic sheen may appear on the inner surface of a wall and a pinkish red area (10R5/5) on the interior of a foot. The characteristicsof the fabric eliminate the possibility that any of these fragments may belong to Campana A or C and suggest instead a connection with the black slip wares of north Etruscan production: CampanaB and related products. The following forms were identified: Cap. 1. Smallfragmentfrom a plate with plain rim and slopingwall. Accordingto Taylor,who assigns it to her Type 11,9this form became popular at Cosa in the last quarterof the second century B.C. and continued in use during the following century.It corresponds to Lamboglia B5 and to Morel ser. 2250.10In red sigillatait is similarto the archaicform GOUDINEAU 1 and to Conspectusform 1. Cap. 2. Large fragment possibly from the base of a platter similar to the preceding. The profile of the foot, low and marked by a deep external gorge, belongs, according to Goudineau,1'to the earliest stage of the foot evolution in plates and platters of red sigillata. Cap. 3. Small fragment probably from a bowl with plain rim and sloping wall. It corresponds to Lamboglia B16,12to Morel 285 1,13 and in the red sigillata, to the archaic form GOUDINEAU 2 and to Conspectusform 7.1. Cap. 4. Large fragment from a bowl with offset rim and sloping wall. According to Taylor, who assigns it to her Type IV, this is the most popular form of bowl at Cosa in the period from 170-160 B.C. to 40-30 B.C.14and is equally well represented at Bolsena in levels of the first century levels II-IV (T.J.,II-IV). For the denariusof Mn. Fonteius, 10 LAMBOGLIA, Classificazionepreliminare, 146-47; MOREL, CB.1819, of 84 B.C., found in the South trench, see COSA, 152-55. Coins, 42, no. 105. 1

GOUDINEAU, 33 1.

6 COSA,

Black Glaze, 117-19.

7 Ibid., 154.

8 COSA,Thin WalledPottery, 120-2 1. 9 CosA,Black Glaze, 156-57.

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LAMBOGLIA, Classificazionepreliminare,159.

13 MOREL,232. 14 COSA, Black

Glaze, 179-80.

THE ORIGIN: THE LATE REPUBLICAN PERIOD

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B.C.15It is similarto Lamboglia A2816and to Morel 2646.17 In red sigillatait finds a counterpartin

the archaicGOUDINEAU form 5 and Conspectusform 8.1. Cap. 5. Smallfragmentfrom a plate similarto Cap. I but with more curved wall and externalprofiling. Similarto Morel 2255, 2257, 2286,18 and in red sigillatato the archaicGOUDINEAUform 8 and to Conspectusform 4.4. THE NEXT STAGEin the progression from black to red is represented by a ware whose fabric is

similarin texture to the preceding, hard and varyingfrom slightlygrittyto decidedly gritty,but with a generaltendency toward a pinker color. With a pink fabric (10R6/6 or 5YR6/6) one finds a purple reddish slip (10R5/4), darkeron the interior(10R4/6-10R4/4) with some metallicsheen;with a buff or light pink fabric (7.5YR7/4-5YR7/4) one finds a brown-orangeslip (2.5YR5/5-5/6). The lower wall on the exterior may be left unslipped. The following forms can be recognized: Cap. 6. Fragmentfrom a cup with offset rim and sloping angularwall. A similarform of Type IV had, according to Taylor,a short life at Cosa, limited to the second century B.C., and therefore its appearancein the Dump must be considered an intrusion.19It seems to be an unskilled imitation of Lamboglia28 in CampanaA,20a long-lasting form that at Ventimigliais still present among the lastest materialof this type. It belongs to Conspectusform 8.1. Cap. 7. Fragment from a bowl with offset rim and sloping wall. It belongs to Conspectusform 8.1. Cap. 8. Large fragmentfrom a bowl with offset rim and curved wall. It is similarto the Cosa bowl with outturned rim of Type II, which accordingto Taylorenjoyed its greatestpopularityhere in the last decades of the second century B.C.2CIt is similarto Conspectusform 8.1. Cap. 9. Small foot, possibly from a bowl with sloping wall. A small circle is incised at the center of the floor. A more advanced stage of development from the black slip technique is evident in several fragmentsfrom this level whose fabric is soft and fine, pinkish buff (5YR7/4) or buff (7.5YR7/4), with a thin, dull, reddish orange slip (2.5YR5/6) occasionallymottled brown or blackish in spots. Half a dozen of these fragmentscall to mind the technical featuresof EasternSigillataA (ESA) and may be considered a clumsy attempt at imitation. The following forms can be recognized: Cap. 10. Fragment from a plate with broad furrowed rim. According to Taylor this form, which she considers "avirtualmonopoly" of her Type IV, was common at Cosa and still in use in the late 15

GOUDINEAU,328-29, type 5.

19 COSA,Black Glaze, 180-81.

LAMBOGLIA, Classificazionepreliminare,177-78.

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LAMBOGLIA, Classificazionepreliminare,177-78.

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secondcenturyB.C. but probablynot in the first,in spiteof its presencein the Dump.22The form does not appearin the repertoryof Italiansigillata. Cap.11.Fragmentpossiblyfroma bowlwithbroadfurrowedrimandslopingwall.Theinclination of the wallsuggeststhisis a variantof the precedingform. a handle.Thetwo-handled Cap.12.Largefragmentfroma goblet,preserving gobletappearsatCosa in TypeI123 andis imitatedin TypeIV,lastinguntilthe end of the productionof blackslipware.24 It correspondsto Morel345125 The formdoes not appearin the repertoryof Italiansigillata. Cap. 13. Fragmentfrom a bowl with plain rim and slopingwall as in Cap.3. It correspondsto Conspectusform 7.1.

Cap. 14. Smallfragmentfroma bowlwith slopingwallandoffsetrimas in Cap.6. It corresponds to Conspectusform 8.1.

Cap. 15. Smallfragmentfroma platewith broadarticulatedrim.Thisform,accordingto Taylor, wasextremelypopularat Cosa,in thelatesecondcenturyB.c. andmostof thefirst,in TypeII,26 and wascopiedin TypeIVwithvariousrimprofiles.In blackslipit appearsat Bolsenaatthe beginning of the firstcenturyB.C.27 andbecomesone of the earliestformsof redsigillata:GOUDINEAU form 6, Conspectusform 10.

Cap.16. Verysmallfragmentof the rimfroma plateas in Cap.15. TRANSITIONAL WAREwas alsorecoveredin the southwestareaof the filldugin the years1965-68.

Of particularinterestis: Cap.17 (C65.183;pl.52). Fragmentof a basewithtracesof palmettesin radialarrangement stamped on the floor.28 STAMPS

Fromthe sameareaof the fillingcomesa blackslip base (C65.40;pl. 52) with four rectangular stampswiththe lettersQA impressedin radialarrangement on the floor(CVArr28 = OCK51). It hasbeen recognizedas likelythe signatureof the potterQ. Afranius,29 whichalsoappearson very earlyredsigillata.It hasbeensuggestedthatthispottermaybe relatedto L. Afranius,consulin 60 B.C., andthatthisfamilymayhavecometo Arretium as settlersin the colonyfoundedby Sullahere followinghis victoryat the CollineGatein 82 B.C.30The activityof the potterhasbeen tentatively 22

Ibid., 177-78.

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23 Ibid., 162-63.

28 COSA, Megarian,173.

24Ibid., 187.

29 SCOTT,

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262-63;

Appendix,206-7, pl. 112.

LAMBOGLIA,

149-50. 26 CosA, Black Glaze, 154-55.

Classificazionepreliminare,

30 L.

Pedroni, "Riflessionisullanascitadell'aretina,"Ostraka 4, 1 (1995) 198-200.

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assigned to the years ca. 40-20 B.C., but an earlier date may be suggested by his possible relation to the family of L. Afranius.

Cesspoolin WestBlock House: Beforeca. 70 B.C. (WBH.1-4, pl. 3, colorpl. 1D-E, map II) Three plates and a cup in transitional technique were recovered from the sediment layer of the cesspool,3"in a republican house situated in the lower southwest section of the excavated area of habitation adjacentto Street L. The house, one of a pair,may have been built shortly after 150 B.C. and was destroyed,accordingto the excavators, in the sack of the town, which took place around70 B.C.32If this event is related, as it seems to be, to piracy along the Tyrrheniancoast," it could hardly have taken place after 67 B.C., the year when the pirates were suppressed by Pompey's admiral,L. Gellius, which should provide the terminusante quem for these four vases.34 Technically,they appearas a homogeneous group, less experimentalthan any of the preceding, quite likely the product of a three-stage firing process. The fabric is very fine, hard, buff in color (5YR7/4). The slip is thin but firm and uniform, from dull to glossy red (10R4/8), occasionally mottled dark red-brown. Their excellent state of preservationsuggests a very short period of use prior to their breaking. The forms are the following: WBH.1 (C72.79).35Nearlycompleteexampleof a platewith offset rim and curvingwall of Conspectus form 5.1.1. Its incised decorationon the interiorconsistsof a smallcircle at the center,surroundedby four circularstampsin radialarrangementand a broad band of roulettingframedby simple circles. WBH.2 (C72.80).36Fragmentaryplate with offset rim similarto the preceding, base missing. WBH.3 (C72.81).37Fragmentsof rim and wall from a plate with broader offset rim, similarto Conspectusform 10.1. Of the decoration on the interior a broad band of rouletting framed by simple circles is preserved.

WBH.4 (C72.131),38 Cup with plain rim and sloping wall like Cap.3, similarto Conspectusform 7. A small circle is incised at the center of the floor on the interior.

House of the Skeleton:ca. 89-70

B.C.

(HS.1-3, pl. 3, colorp1. 1F,map II)

Three more specimens were recovered from a republican house in the northeasternsection of the excavated area, at the intersection of Street M with Streeet 5.39 The house named House of the 31 CosA IV 74.

36 Ibid., 202-3,

32 Ibid.,

37

65-74.

33 BROWN,Cosa, 74 andno. 12. 34 For the significanceand extent of this destruction, see my discussion below p. 15.

fig. 47.8.

Ibid., 204, fig. 47.10. Though Conspectusforms 5 and 10 have been dated to early Augustan times, their forerunner, the black slipped plate with horizontaloffset rim of TypeII, was extremely popular at Cosa in the late second century and most of the first" (COSA, Black Glaze, 154). 38 Ibid., 204-5, fig. 47.2, pl. 110.

35 SCOTT,Appendix,202-3,

fig. 47.9, pl. 109. 39 Ibid., 206, 208, fig. 47.1,5.


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Skeleton, sometimes referred to as the SUNY House,40 appears to have been built after 89 B.C., shortlybefore its destructionaround70 B.C.4"Technically,they are a homogeneous group, somewhat differentfrom the preceding and closer to the final stage of the materialin level II of the Capitolium South trench. In HS.l (C69.237) and HS.3 (C69.446) the fabric is fine and soft, yellowish buff (5YR7/4), in HS.2 (C69.445) slightly gritty, a little harder and darker (5YR6/6). The slip, thin, dull, and worn on all three specimens, is red on HS.2 and HS.3 (10R5/8), darkerred (10R4/5) and mottled on HS.1. The following forms can be identified: HS.1 (C69.237),from the impluvium.Cup or plate with plain rim and slopingwall similarto WBH.4 and Conspectusform 7.1 but shallowerand clumsier,with a slightlyconcave wall and simple vertical foot. Two concentric circles are incised on the inner floor. HS.2 (C69.445), from Room 17. Fragmentof wall and rim from a bowl with offset rim and sloping wall of Conspectusform 8. 1, similarto Cap. 4. HS.3 (C69.446), from Room 17. Fragmentof rim and wall, probablyfrom a jar and inkwell similar to Conspectusform 51.1. Another example of this form was found in a surface level in the East Block of the excavated area. Compared to the preceding, this group seems to be the product of a less accomplished but more experimentalworkshop.

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B.C. (HB.1-7,

pl. 4, colorpls. 1F,2G, mapsII-III)

Three examples of transitionalred slip ware come from the constructionlevel of a house adjacent to Street N, in the southeast section of the excavated area. This large double atriumhouse, named House of the Birds,42was built on the ruins of two republicanhouses in the decades 40-20 B.C.,43 when the town was reoccupied and this particularareapartiallyreconstructed.The three examples are the following:44 HB.1 (C71.207), from Room 12. Fragmentof wall and rim from a bowl with offset rim and sloping wall, similar in profile to HS.2 but technically different. The fabric is fine and moderately hard, light red (2.5YR6/6); the slip even and glossy red (2.5YR6/8). Wheel marksare present on the inner surface. It belongs to Conspectusform 8.1. HB.2 (C71.208). Fragment of wall and rim from a bowl with offset rim and sloping wall similar to the preceding, but the inclination of the wall is difficult to assess. The fabric is a little gritty and moderatelyhard, pinkish buff (10R6/6); the slip uniform, a little glossy, somewhat worn, brownish red in color (10R5/6). Technicallysimilarto HS.2. 40

COSA, Megarian,173.

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146-48.

42 Ibid., 161-91.

4 Ibid., 185-88. 44 SCOTT, Appendix,209, fig. 47,4, 206, fig. 47,7.


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HB.3 (C71.209). Fragmentsof wall and rim from a large bowl with plain rim and rounded wall of Conspectusform 36.1. The fabricis grittyand hard,buff (2.5YR7/3);the slip, largelyworn, is difficult to assess given the heavy incrustationon the surface, possibly brownish red (2.5YR4/8). A similar form, shallowerwith tapering rim, appearsat Cosa in TaylorType II, in deposits of the late second and first centuries.45It is also similarto a variationof Lamboglia B8 and Morel 2245.46 In additionto these, the fragmentsof a platter,which was classifiedas an imitationof an Eastern SigillataA (ESA) form, were found mortared into the top of a drain in Corridor2, in the area of the second Atrium:47 HB.4 (C71.150). Fragmentaryplatterwith upcurved rim (only beginning of curvepreserved).It has a short thick foot of small diameter,deeply concave inside, an almost flat floor and wall of increasing thickness toward the foot. The floor decoration consists of two groups of incised lines around the center. The fabric is fine, moderately soft, of buff color (5YR7/5); the slip is thin, dull, slightly mottled, of brownish red color (10R4/8). It is a clear example of an imported plate of ESA, HAYES form 3,48 TEL ANAFA type 13,49 dated approximatelyfrom the late second century B.C. to the last decade of the first century B.C.Along with HAYESform 4 it is one of the commonest forms of plate in the firstcenturyB.C., found throughoutthe easternMediterranean.It was probablyfirstimported to Cosa at the end of the first quarterof the first century B.C. (see below pp. 20-2 1). A black slip base with five rectangularstamps C. V( ) (CVArr2460 = OCK 2275) in radial arrangement (C68.415; pl. 52), found also in the constructionlevel,50may set the latest chronological limit for the materialpreceding the construction of the house. The earliest date for the red sigillata related to its occupation may be found instead in the sediment layer of a vaulted cesspool that underlies a bathroom in the remodeled northwest portion of the later house (Room 3) 51 The date of construction of the cesspool is uncertain;it may originallyhave been connected with the earlier republican house, but the bulk of the material recovered from its filling, including its sediment layer, reflects an early stage in the occupation of the later house. The following examples belong to its earliest use: HB.5 (C68.572; pl. 52). Fragmentarybase with small ring foot and the beginning of the wall from a bowl with curved junction between wall and floor.52The fabric is very fine, hard, yellowish buff (5YR7/4); the slip is moderatelyglossy on the interior,matte on the exterior, dark red (10R4/8). It likely belongs to a bowl with offset rim and sloping wall of Conspectusform 8.1; the base is similarto ConspectusB 3.4-6. On the floor are preservedtwo rectangularstamps AV( ) (CVArr2317 = OCK 2274) in radial arrangement,which have been dated to the period 40-20 B.C.; the same signature, AV,is also present on black slip ware.53 45 COSA, Black Glaze, 159.

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SCOTT,Appendix,206, p1. 116.

46 LAMBOGLIA,

Classificazionepreliminare, 148-49; MOREL, 51 COSAIV, 38-42; CosA,Aco, 243-45.

152. 52

SCOTT,Appendix, 205-6, fig. 47.6, pl. 111; COSA,Aco,

47 COSAIV, 186-87; SCOTT,Appendix,206, fig. 47.11.

244.

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IX 185, n. 13; GOUDINEAU,333; CVArr,no. 2317. 53COSA

HAYES,14-15,

pl. I, no. 8.

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HB.6 (C68.532; pl. 52).54Shallow carinatedcup, with a central rosette impressed on the floor and a band of rouletting on the vertical wall and carination.A small bowl of similarform but without slip or decoration was found, along with a few late republican fragments of thin walled pottery, outside the north corner of the Basilica, in a level datable to the third quarterof the first century B.C. It was included among the thin walled pottery of late republicantimes with some reservations, given the greaterthickness of its wall (Cosa Form XIX).55 Room 4 in the northeast portion of the House of the Birds is a large rectangulartriclinium overlying a low back court of the preceding republicanhouse.56In my previous description of this area Rooms 3 and 4 were evaluated separately,57 as parts of two adjacentnew houses, built on the ruins of the old, each of them containingits own atrium.Successiveinvestigationsproved that both belonged to the large double-atriumhouse now called the House of the Birds.58A vaulted cesspool belonging to the original republican house was discovered under Room 4.59 The material found in the sediment layer,which can be dated to the last period of occupation of the house before its destruction, included a specimen of transitionalsigillata: HB.7 (C68.608; pl. 52). Large fragmentof the base of a plate with a central rosette surroundedby four concentric circles impressed on the floor.60

B. FROM TRANSITIONAL SIGILLATATO EARLY"ARRETINE" As the finds previously described demonstrate, the movement away from black toward red slip technique was under way at Cosa at the close of the first and beginning of the second quarterof the first century B.C. A quarterof a century,therefore, separatesthe appearanceof transitionalsigillata at Cosa from the beginning of "pre-aretine" at Bolsena, which is believed to have taken place in the middle of the first century B.C.61The recently established differences between the two groups of ceramicsmentioned earlier,the north Etruscan, to which the Cosa finds belong, and the southern group of Cales-Teanoand Latium, which also includes the materialfrom Bolsena, can hardly be used to explain so great a discrepancy in date. This becomes even more incomprehensible when we consider the chronology of the "presigillata"from Morgantina,which, notwithstandingthe distance between sites, seems to agree with the dating of the transitionalsigillatafrom Cosa.62Seven deposits at Morgantinahave yielded transitionalsigillata.The earliest,the fill of a fountain house in the Agora dated to the first half of the first century B.C.,contained, albeit in small quantity,sherds of transitionalsigillata.Later deposits demonstratethat this ware became popular during the third quarterof the century.The greaterquantityof transitionalsigillataat Cosa before the middle of the first century B.C.may not be pure coincidence since, given the recognized north Italian influence

54 SCOTT,Appendix,207-8, pl. 117.

5 Ibid.,47-49; CosA,Aco, 245.

55 COSA, Thin WalledPottery,79, 72.

60 SCOTT,

56 COSA IV, 45-47, 163, 173.

61

GOUDINEAU, 320.

57CosA,Aco, 243-46.

62

STONE,Morgantina,85-103.

58 COSAIV, 161-88.

Appendix,208, p1. 118; COSA,Aco, 245.


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in the developmentof this typeof potteryat Morgantina,a slightpriorityof the new techniquein the Etruscanareaseemsindicated. Thesuccessivephasesof thedevelopment fromtransitional to truesigillatacannotbe considered withoutfirstestimatingthe extentandconsequencesof the raidon the townat thebeginningof the In theirexhaustiveexplorationof theharborof Cosa,A. M. secondquarterof the firstcenturyB.c.63 in its commercial McCannandherteamdidnotfindanytraceof destructionorinterruption activity duringthe courseof the firstcenturyB.C.64Equallyunscathedappearthe villasandvillagesin the Bothcircumstances seemconsonantwith a pirateraidsincethe use of the surroundingterritory.65 harborwouldhavebeen of vitalimportanceto the raidersandpillagingof the countrysideunwise. Nor No evidenceto proveor disprovethe attackis offeredby the studyof the coinsfromCosa.66 is such a drasticinterruptionof life demonstratedby the ceramicsfromthe site so farpublished, thougha periodof lesserdemandfor such aroundthe middleof the centurymaybe reflectedin the moderateamountof materialrecovered. At the presentstageof ourknowledge,limitedby the documentation availableso far,it seems prudentto assumethatin the yearsafterthe raidoccasionalsquattersor transientinhabitantsfrom the busyharborandthrivingcountrysideascendedthe hill of Cosaandroamedaboutthe ruinsor in the publicareaof the forum.A drasticinterruptionin foundshelteramongthem,particularly the officiallife of the town mayhavegone on throughoutthe secondquarterof the century,but thiswouldnot preventthe possibilityof someformof survivalat a lesserlevel.Withthispossibility in mindwe cansurveythe findsfromcertainexcavatedareasof the townthatfillthe chronological gapbetweenthe timeof the destructionandthatof resettlement.

WestWallDump:ThirdQuarterof theFirstCentury B.C. (Dump1-33,pls.4-6, colorpl. 2H-J,mapV Toa periodcontemporary withthe Arxfillaroundthe Capitoliumandcontinuingdownto the end of the thirdquarterof the firstcenturyB.C.maybe datedthe materialdiscoveredin a long pocket of the bedrockoutsideandparallelto the citywallto the northwestof the Arxbetweentowers8 and9 (DumplevelsI-IV). Theterminusantequemforthe accumulation is determinedby thelatest materialpresentin level I, a few fragmentsbearingstamps(Dump23-26), one of themfromthe workshopof L. UmbriciusSalvius,activearound20 B.C.;the terminuspostquemis providedby six amphorastampsdatablebetweenthe secondquarterandthe end of the secondcenturyB.c.67The stratification of thismaterialseemsto indicatetwo majordumpingsratherthana gradualaccumulation,the earlier,levelsIV and III, in the secondhalf of the secondcenturyB.C.,the later,levels II and I, in the thirdquarterof the firstcenturyB.C.In this laterdeposit,whichdid not include specimensmucholderthanthe end of the thirdquarterof the firstcenturyB.C.,redsigillata,both transitionaland standard,is well represented: halfa dozenfragmentsin levelII andfivedozenin levelI. Amongthe sigillatarecoveredfromlevelI werefivefragmentsbearingstamps:threeof the old lineartypeandtwo withnames. 63 64 65

BROWN,

Scavi,40; BROWN, Cosa, 74-75.

CosA,Port, 27-29.

D. Manacorda, "Produzione agricola, produzione ceramica e proprietarinell'ager cosanus,"in A. Giardinaand A. Schiamone, eds., Societa'romana e produzione schiavistica, II: Merci, mercati e scambi nel Mediterraneo (Bari 1981)

3-54, 263-73. 66 COSA,Coins, 33. 67 COSA,Black Glaze, 133-35; COSA,Thin Walled Pottery, 22-24; S. L. Dyson, Cosa: The UtilitarianPottery = MAAR 33 (1976) 87-88; COSA, Megarian,175.

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Since the datable materialother than the sigillatarecovered from the Dump has alreadybeen examined in detail in The Roman Thin WalledPottery, we need mention here in addition to the quinariusof M. Porcius Cato (CB.1706) of 93-91 B.c.68two more coins not included in this study: a bronze of Panormus of the first century B.C. (CB.1821)69and a halved light uncial as (CB.1823) datable 43-26 B.C.70 Most of the pottery recovered from the Dump is in a poor state of preservation,fragmentary and worn as if it had been exposed for some time to the elements before ending up in the filling.As a consequence it is difficultto describe the originalcharacteristicsof fabricand slip for a number of fragmentsor to assignthem with certaintyto recognizableforms.In general,it can be saidthat here the initialphase of transitionfromblack to red is over and that the red slip technique,in a broad spectrum of variations,has become the norm. The fabricis finer and softer than in the examplesfrom the Arx fill and from the republicanhouses; the prevailingcolor is pinkish ratherthan buff or, more rarely, grayish.The slip variesfrom the thin, dull, light red type of transitionalsigillatato a firmerand glossier one in a red tending toward orange or brown, all featuressignalingthe arrivalof true Arretine. The forms recognizable with some certainty correspond on the whole to those encountered in the transitionalmaterial, but some changes deserve mention. A tendency to move away from the simple and continuous forms of Campanapottery is seen in the preference for furrowed rims, forerunnersof the sharply articulatedforms of classical Arretine. This tendency also accounts for the almost total disappearanceof the bowl with offset rim and sloping wall based on the Campana form, which had been in great favor at Cosa before the destruction. Similarlyoutdated is the attemptto introduce certainclosed forms of Campanapottery,such as the pitcher,into the new technique. In fact the repertorythat will be typicalof undecoratedArretine as a pottery of open forms, bowls, dishes, plates, and platters is alreadybecoming evident. Finally, the presence of severalrim fragmentsfrom plates or platterswith curvingwall and plain rim, some very close in shape and technique to ESA, shows an attempt to imitate this class of pottery. The consequences of this attempt in the development of Arretine pottery will remain negligible in the choice of forms but fundamentalfor technical improvement. The recognizable or probable forms are the following: BOWLS WITH OFFSET RIM AND SLOPING WALL

Dump 1. Large body fragment from a bowl with plain, slightly outturned rim. The fabric is very gritty and hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6). The surface,which appearsuncoated, variesfrom pinkish yellow (5YR6/6) to yellowish (5YR5/8). Technicallythe piece is unique and possibly a failure. PLATES OR PLATTERS WITH PLAIN RIM AND SLOPING WALL OF CONSPECTUSFORM 1

Dump2. Fragmentof wallwith rimfroma platter.The fabricis veryfine,soft,pinkish(2.5YR7/4);the slip is thin, verydull on the exterior,less dull on the interior,reddish(2.5YR5/6).Transitionaltechnique. 68 COSA, Coins, no. 85. 69 Ibid., no. 14. 70 Ibid., no. 125. On halved coins, see L. Cesano, "Contributo allo studio delle monete antiche dimezzate:ripostiglio

di Terni" RIN 28 (1915) 11-38; A. Tusa Cutroni, "Sulle monete dimezzate trovate a Solunto: osservazioni storiconumismatiche," Kokalos 6 (1960) 110-23; T. V. Buttrey, "HalvedCoins, the AugustanReformand Horace Odes 1.3," AJA 76 (1972) 31.


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Theoriginalshapesof thefollowingvasescannotbe ascertained fromthefragments; technically theyvaryfromearlyArretine(Dump3-4) to Arretine(Dump5): Dump3. Fragmentof wallwithrim.Thefabricis fine,soft,pinkish(2.5YR6/3);the slipthin,dull, brown-orange(2.5YR4/6). Dump4. Twosmallfragmentsof wallwith rim.The fabricis fine,soft,lightpinkish(2.5YR7/4); the slip ratherfirm,moderatelyglossy,orange(2.5YR4/8). Dump5. Fragmentof wallwith rim.The fabricis veryfine,soft,buff (2.5YR6/5);the slipis firm, moderatelyglossy,orange(2.5YR4/8). BOWLS WITH PLAIN RIM AND SLOPING WALL OF CONSPECTUSFORM

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Dump6. Smallfragmentof wallwithrim,wallprofiledifficultto assess.Thefabricis slightlygritty and hard,orange(5YR6/6);the slip thin, dull, varyingin color fromred (10R5/6)to darkgray (1OR4/2)on the exterior,reddish(2.5YR5/6)on the interior.Transitional technique. Dump7. Fragmentof wallwithrim.Thefabricis veryfine,soft,buff (5YR6/4);the slipfirm,glossy on theinterior,dulleron the exterior,orangein color(10R5/8).Transitional technique.Theslightly concaveandstronglyobliquewallis exceptional. Dump 8. Smallfragmentof rim with beginningof wall. The fabricis fine and soft, pinkish (2.5YR6/5);the slip firmand glossy,orange(2.5YR5/8).The roundedprofileof the rimand the techniquemayalsosuggesta similarityto Conspectus form8. PLATES OR PLATTERS WITH OFFSET AND VARIOUSLYARTICULATED RIM

Dump9. Fragmentof wallandrimfroma platewitharticulatedrimandcurvingwall.Thefabricis fine,soft,grayishbuff (2.5YR6/3);the slipmoderatelyglossy,brown-reddish(2.5YR4/5).TechnicallylaterthanDump 12, it suggestsa formsimilarto Conspectus form5. Dump10.Fragmentof wallandpartlypreservedrimfroma platewitharticulatedrimandcurving wallsimilarto the preceding.The fabricis fine,soft,buff (7.5YR7/4);the slipdull,brown-reddish (1OR5/6).Sametechnicalstageas the preceding. Dump11. Fragmentof wallandrimfroma platewith articulatedrimandcurvingwall,similarto the preceding.Theverypoorpreservation of the surfacemakesit impossibleto definethe characteristicsof the fabricandslip. Dump 12. Largefragmentof wallwith rimfroma platterwith broadarticulatedrim.The fabric is fine,hard,pinkish(2.5YR6/6);the slip moderatelyglossyand brown-reddishabove(10R4/6), dull andpurplebelow (10R4/3).The surfaceis well preserved.Technically it is verysimilarto the platesWBH.1-3 (C72.79-81)and the cup WBH.4 (C72.131), andit is possiblya productof the sameworkshop.It correspondsto GOUDINEAU form 6 andConspectusform10.1.

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The following small fragmentsof articulatedrims belong to plates or platters of forms similar to the preceding. Their fabric is fine, soft, buff or grayishbuff (5YR6/6 or 5YR6/5); their slip dull or moderately glossy, red (10R5/8) or orange (2.5YR5/8). Technically they belong to the stage represented by fragmentsDump 9-11 and along with them may be dated from very early to early Arretine: Dump 13. Fragmentof rim with beginning of wall, from a plate of Conspectusform 10.1. Dump 14. Fragmentof rim with beginning of wall, also from a plate of Conspectusform 10.1. Dump 15. Fragment of rim with beginning of sloping wall. Probably from a plate similarto Conspectusform 11. Dump 16. Partial fragmentof rim, probably from a plate similarto Conspectusform 11. Dump 17. Fragment of rim with beginning of a gently sloping wall, possibly from a plate similar to Conspectusform 11. FEET FROM PLATES AND PLATTERS

Dump 18. Fragment of foot from a platter.The foot is low and broad. Tracesof a linear stamp in radialarrangementon floor.The profile of the foot is similarto the base ConspectusB 1.2, belonging to forms datable from the early to the middle Augustan period. Dump 19. Fragment of small foot with beginning of wall from a plate. The foot is narrow and somewhat rounded. The fabric is very fine, soft, pale grayish buff (2.5YR7/2); the slip dull, dark brown-red (2.5YR4/6). The profile of the foot is similarto the very earlybase ConspectusB 2.2. Dump 20. Large fragmentof foot with beginning of wall from a platter.The foot has a segmented profile and a very narrow resting surface; the attachment is rounded on the exterior, angularon the interior;a band of roulettingframedby circles on the floor.The technique presents transitional features:the fabric is fine, soft, grayishbuff (2.5YR6/4); the slip thin, dull, brown-red (2.5YR4/7). The profile of the foot presents features of the bases ConspectusB 2.2-3, associated with Arretine plates datable to the early Augustan period. Dump 21. Fragmentof foot and beginning of wall from a platter.Shape of foot similarto the preceding but with an angularresting point. The fabric is fine, soft, pinkish buff (2.5YR5.5/4); the slip thin, dull, red (10R4.5/6). The profile of the foot corresponds to the base ConspectusB 2.3. Dump 22. Small fragment of small foot from a plate. The foot has a segmented external profile, angular external attachment, and angular resting point. The fabric is fine, very soft, pinkish buff (5YR7/4); the slip solid, glossy, dark red (10R4/7). It corresponds to the base ConspectusB 2.4, usually connected with forms dated to the middle Augustan period. Within the limited chronologicalcertaintyprovided by the evolution of feet in sigillata,we may conclude that the examples examined above, with the exception of Dump 22, present characteristics


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of shapecorresponding to the firststageof evolutionat Bolsenaandtechnicalfeaturesthatcanbe identifiedas transitionalandearlyArretine. STAMPS(PL. 53)

In additionto the linearstampof Dump18,whichis difficultto interpret,fourstampswerefound in levelI of the Dump,two linearandtwo withnames,whichhavebeen previouslyexaminedand discussedat length.71 Theyare: frame Dump23.72Fragmentof a platewithstampC. SIX(CVArr1827= OCK1973),in rectangular andradialarrangement, assignedto C. Six( ), a potterof uncertainoriginactivearound40 B.C. r

~ of a~platewith ~ stamp ~ L VMB[RIC]I/ SALVI(CVArr2453= OCK2476),in Dump24. 13Fragment withtext in two lines,assignedto L. UmbriciusSalvius, rectangular frameandradialarrangement a potterof uncertainoriginactivearound20 B.C. (see abovep. 15). frameand radialarrangement, similar Dump25. Fragmentof a platewith stampin rectangular to stampsOCK2561.3,4datedbetween40 and20 B.C. Dump26. Fragmentof a platewithtwo radiallyarrangedstampsin a squareframewithrounded corners.The samestampsarefoundalsoon CampanaB platesandarecloselyrelatedto thoseon a platefromthe House of the Griffinson the Palatinedatablebefore15 B.C. EASTERN SIGILLATAA

(ESA) AND LOCAL IMITATIONS

A dozenfragmentsof redsigillata,eitherof easternoriginor of localimitationthereof,werefound in levelI of the Dump,in additionto theplatterHB.4 (C71.150),fromthe construction levelof the Houseof the Birds,previouslydescribed.Theymaycastsomelighton the much-debatedquestion of foreigninfluencein the creationof westernsigillata.Sincea cleardistinctionbetweenimported andlocallyproducedmaterialis hamperednot onlyby theirgreatsimilaritybut alsoby the poor stateof preservation of the fragments,I haverestrictedthe definitionof easternsigillatato a small numberof more plausiblespecimens.Importedor locallyproduced,however,all examplesare relatedto EasternSigillataA (ESA),themostimportantandwidelydistributedgroup,whichprobablyoriginatedin the coastalareaof northernSyria,achievedits greatestpopularitytherein thelast andwasexported,albeitin small quarterof the secondcenturyB.C. andfirstquarterof the first,76 the quantities,alsoto westernMediterranean.77 Recognizable shapesat Cosaareallvariationsof the 71 COSA, Thin WalledPottery,22-23, pl. 91,1-5. 72

Ibid., pl. 91, no. 5.

73 Ibid., pl. 91, no. 1.

and Roman pottery from Tel Anafa: TELANAFA,257-64, 269-74. ESA, which is the chief fine ware during the Late Hellenistic and Romanphases of TelAnafa,firstappearshere around 150 B.C., probably of northern Syrianmanufacture, and was almost the only fine ware at the site in the period 128-80 B.C. (see below pp. 21-22).

74 Ibid., pl. 91, no. 3. 75 Ibid., pl. 91, no. 4. 76

HAYES,12-13. This class of ceramics has been recently reexamined with great accuracy and insight by K. Warner Slane in connection with the publication of the Hellenistic

77 U. Vanderhoeven,Les terressigillees.Fouillesd'Apame'ede Syrie,IX, 1 (Brussels 1989) 18-19; G. Schneider, "La situazione delle ricerche archeometrichesulla sigillata orientale e sulle ceramiche fini di epoca tardo antica," in OLCESE, Ceramicae archeometria,63, 65.


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verypopularplatewithupturnedrim.Thefragmentsclassifiedas ESAsharecertainbasictechnical thefabricis finerandsofterthanin mostwesternsigillataandappearsalmostentirely characteristics: freefromimpurities;the coloris a paleor verypalebuffwith a tingeof pinkor yellow(1OYR8/2; 7.5YR8/3;7.5YR7/2);the slip,thin,dull,andpartlyworn,variesin colorfrompalerto darkerred (10YR5.5/8;2.5YR4/7)andfromreddishorangeto yellowishorange(2.5YR5/8;5YR5/8). The fragmentsclassifiedas ESAarethe following: Dump27. Threejoiningfragmentsof wallandrimfroma platterwithupturnedrim.The external profileof the rimis rounded,the beginningof the wall almostflat.It can be easilycompletedas an exampleof HAYESform3, datedfromthe latesecondcenturyB.C.to the lastdecadeof the first century B.C.,78corresponding to TEL ANAFA 13.79 The fragment of rim comes from level I of the Dump, the fragment of wall from the filling of the Capitolium terrace. Dump 28. Small fragmentof rim similarto the preceding. Dump 29. Fragment of rim from a plate or platter with gently upturned rim of HAYES form 4A,8? TEL ANAFA 13c,81which is contemporarywith HAYES form 3. Dump 30. Small fragment of foot and beginning of wall probably from a plate of moderate size. The short vertical foot is rounded on the exterior and was possibly deeply concave on the interior. The wall thickens toward the foot. A form like HAYES 3 is suggested. Half a dozen fragments,though presenting technical features very similarto the preceding, a fine and soft fabric with a thin, dull, and much worn slip, share a slightly more intense color in the fabric (7.5YR7/3; 7.YR7/4) and a general tendency toward orange in the slip (2.5YR5/8; 5YR5/8). The identifiable forms are again plates or platterswith upturned rim: Dump 31. Fragmentof a very shallow plate with rim rounded at the lip, similarto HAYESform 2A,82 TEL ANAFA 13a.83

Dump 32. Fragmentof rim from a plate or platterwith gently upturned rim similarto HAYES form 2B.84

Dump 33. Two fragments of foot and one of upturned rim likely from the same platter. The ring foot is very low and wide with sloping interior;the floor is almost flat and the floor wall thick. Two incised circles are preserved on the floor. It is similarto the feet of HAYES form 4. THE DISCOVERYof a fragmentof platterDump 27 in the fillingof the Capitoliumterraceand of plate

HB.4 (C71.150) in the construction level of the House of the Birds (see above p. 13) indicates that 78

HAYES,

14-15, pl. I, nos. 7-8.

82 HAYES,

14, pl. I, nos. 3-5.

79 TELANAFA,285-97.

83 TEL ANAFA,285-88.

80

84

HAYES,

15-16, pl. I, nos. 9-10.

81 TELANAFA,288-95.

HAYES,

14, pl. I, no. 6.


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ESA must have firstreachedthe coast of northernEtrurianot laterthan the end of the firstquarterof The presenceof ESA in the areabeforethis datemaybe suggestedby the elegantly the firstcenturyB.c.85 articulateshape of HB.4, which correspondsto an earlystage in the developmentof HAYES3, and by the severalfragmentstechnicallyakin to ESA also found in the filing of the Capitoliumterrace(see above pp. 9-10). It appearsin any case evidentthatimportedred slip warefrom the Eastwas in use at Cosa at the time when north Etruscanworkshopswere firstattemptingthe changefrom black to red. This can hardlybe dismissedas pure coincidence.To the materialexamined so far a dozen fragments will be added, unearthedin pre-Augustanlevels of AtriumBuildingI (see below pp. 25, 28). The possibility cannot be dismissed, however, that fragmentsof ESA have gone unnoticed in the course of excavation due not only to the division between East and West in studies of late Hellenistic ceramicsbut also to the still limited popularityof this class of pottery at the time when the bulk of Cosa ceramicswas unearthed. The misidentificationof ESA in the western Mediterranean by Lamboglia,who classifiedit as "presigillata,"is a case in point.86To the few specimens classified in the past as ESA from Campania, Apulia, and Sicily, more can be added that have been more recently published.87What seems particularlysignificant,however, is the presence of this class of pottery in two centers such as Cosa and Pisa that belong to the same north Etruscangroup (which includes the production of Arezzo) and the date of its appearance at Cosa, at least a quarterof a century earlier than heretofore postulated. It recalls the opinion of those scholars who discerned an eastern influence, albeit in different degrees and aspects, in the creation of Arretine.88 The double aspect, technical and typological, of such an influence has been recently examined with greataccuracyby K. WarnerSlane.89She has reachedthe conclusionthat "inall instanceswhere Italian sigillata and ESA forms resemble each other, the eastern forms are modeled on the Italian ones." It is a conclusion in my opinion entirely justified at Cosa by the insignificanceof imported ESA in comparison to the variety of forms of CampanaB and its local imitations, easily available to the workshops experimenting with new firing techniques. On the other hand, "the potters of Arezzo adopted both the production strategy of ESA ... and its firing technology." This meant abandoning the three-stage firing process of Greek tradition that persisted in the production of Italian black slip ware, in favor of the one-stage firing of the East, "whichwas carefullycontrolled and capable of producing consistently fired red vases." The greattechnicalvarietywitnessedin the transitionalsigillatafromCosa,showingthe persistence of the old tradition in the hard blotched sherds, and the tentative adoption of the new tradition in 85 Its increasing visibility during the third quarter of the centuryis historicallyjustifiedby Pompey'ssettlement of the East, which brought under Roman rule the supposed areaof production of ESA:J. Poblome, R. Brulet,and 0. Bounegru, "The Concept of Sigillata, Regionalism or Integration?," RCRFActa36 (2000) 279. 86

N. Lamboglia, Gli scavi di Albintimilium e la cronologia della ceramicaromana.Campagnedi scavo 1938-1940 (Bordighera 1950) 55, 69, 189; id., "Ceramica 'presigillata' a Ventimiglia,a Minorca e in Sicilia,"ArchEspArq29 (1951) 35-41; GOUDINEAU,57-63, 320-22. 87 Ninety-three fragments from thirty to thirty-five vases were found in Hellenistic strataof a house excavated in Pisa in 1991. They represent eight different forms, mostly plates and bowls of wide distribution, dated between the end of the second century B.C. and the Augustan period. Here, as

at Cosa, more fragments of ESA may have gone unnoticed among the red slip ware found in other areas of the town: S. Menchelli and M. Pasquinucci, "Ceramiche orientali nell'Etruriasettentrionalecostiera(II sec. a.C.-VI sec. d.C.)," RCRFActa36 (2000) 371-72. 88 OXE,Rhein, 28-33, connected the transition from black to red and the origin of Arretine with the migration of oriental artists to Rome after the fall of Alexandria, while such other scholars as G. F. Gamurrini, H. Dragendorff, and A. Del Vita perceived the transition from black to red in Arezzo as the work of local potters under the influence of Easternceramics(GOUDINEAU, 322, n. 2). This influencewas minimizedby C. Goudineau, who in his study of the material from Bolsena reduced it with good probabhlityto only two forms (ibid., 342-47). 89 TEL ANAFA, 273-74.


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the softerred sherds,is cleartestimonyto the effortsof workshopssituatedin the northEtruscan region(anareamoreinclusivethanArezzo)not onlyto movefromblackto redbut, morespecifically,to adoptthe firingtechniquebroughtto theirattentionby the importedeasternware.This accountsfor the lengthandtortuousnessof the processand,at thisstage,lendssupportto Slane's assertionthat "theinfluenceis moreindirectthanis assumedin havingan easterner'founding'a factoryin Arezzo,"sincetherewouldthen be no transitionalphaseat Arezzo.In my opinionthis does not, however,providea sufficientexplanationfor the astonishingjumpin qualitythattakes placein the productionof the most prestigiousworkshopsof Arezzoafterthe battleof Actium, whenvesselsunrivaledin technique,shape,anddecorationbearingthe signaturesof foreignartists andimitatingpreciselyidentifiableHellenisticmodelsstartappearingon the market.The history of decoratedArretine,or at leasta considerablepartof it, shouldbe writtendifferently.

AtriumBuildingI, Room16,LevelsII-III:ThirdQuarterof theFirstCenturyB.C. (AB16.1-32,pls. 7-9, colorpl. 2K-L,mapsI, IV,V) Movingto the centerof thetownandthe openareathatfromthe foundationof the colonyhadbeen designatedasthe Forum,we shallexaminethe redwarefromthe republican-early Augustanlevels in a publicbuilding,AtriumBuildingI, locatedat the northcornerof the Forum90 (see mapIV). Afterthe end of the secondPunicWarandthe arrivalin 197B.C.of a new contingentof colonists, theForumof Cosa,whosehithertohaphazard growthhadreflectedstrictlyutilitarian considerations, wassubjectedto an overallmasterplan.Eightverysimilarbuildingswereerectedon threesidesof the square,fillingthe spacebetweenit andthe boundingstreets.91 AtriumBuildingI, one of the pairflankingthe northwesternentranceway to the Forum,was the onlyone entirelyexcavated.92 Its plan,consistingof thirteenroomslaidout on threetransverse levelsarounda centralatrium,reflectsthe adaptationto publicuse of the basicdesignof a Roman house.Five of the spaceswere tabernae:two situatedon eitherside of the principalentranceto the Forumandthreein the back,openingon Street0. Thoughthe functionsof the otherspaces remainunclear,the absenceof regularlivingquartersexcludesthe possibilitythattheymayhave been used for privatehabitation.In the courseof the firstquarterof the secondcenturyB.C.the remainingportionof theplotto the eastwasgraduallyfilledwithmoretabernaeanda walledarea.93 Of thesetabernaeone,Room25, likelya butchershop,wasbuiltatthe northcorneratthe crossing of Streets0 and7; another,whichmayhavebeen usedfor storage(Room22), was addedbehind it a littlelater.Finally,the remainingL-shapedareaof the plot was enclosedwith a wall alongits two open sides,and threeseparateareaswerecreated.Later,at the time of the reconstruction of the Forumwhen some of the Atriumbuildings,includingAB I, were transformedinto houses, these areasbecameRooms16, 11, and 21.94Thoughthe identificationof consecutivelevelswas complicatedin the excavationof most of the buildingby intentionalchangesand catastrophic 90 COSAIII, 59-77, 104-6. 91 Ibid., 92

57-59.

After this manuscriptwas alreadycompleted, the excavations of Atrium Building V carried out under the direction of E. Fentresswere published: ead., Cosa V, An Intermittent Town.Excavations1991-1997, MAAR suppl. 2 (2003). Accordingto Fentress,"Thecentralpoint remainsthat a private

house opening onto a forum is unusual."Yet, despite admitting that "the Cosan forum seems to have been planned with a modular approach,"she considers the building called the House of Diana a private dwelling (ibid., 21). 9 CosaIII, 135-38. 94

Ibid.,238-40.


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events,the roomspreviouslymentionedprovidedsomestratigraphic evidenceforthe development of red sigillata.Rooms16 and 11 in particularofferedsomeinterestingdatafor the changefrom transitionalto earlyArretine. In the latestperiodof its use Room16, at the easterncornerof AB I andadjacentto the centralpartof the northwesternwallof the Basilica,was quitepossiblya shedfor storage,a function suggestedby the largequantitiesof ceramicsfoundin its upperlevel (Room16, I). Thislevellay underthe debrisof the adjacentnorthwesternwall of the Basilica,which had collapsedat the beginningof the fifth decadeof the firstcenturyA.D.95and above a rammedearthfloor,much disintegrated,in the southernandeasterncornersof the room.96 The beginningof accumulation of the materialfound in level I is set at the end of the third/beginningof the fourthquarterof the first centuryB.C. by a halvedlight uncialas (CE.720);97 the end, by the fall of the Basilica wall. Of the thirty-threesigillatastampsfromthis level, ten arein plantapedis;of the remaining twenty-three,eight maystill be datedwith good probabilitywithinthe Augustanperiod.98 The longevityof the accumulation,however,whichis clearlyreflectedin the greatvarietyof the sigillata and thin walledpottery,and a disturbancein the southeasternareaof the roomlessen the utilityof the stratigraphicevidenceofferedby this level. The sigillatafromthis level is therefore excludedfromthe catalogue. LevelII wasa layerabout0.10m deepbetweenthe rammedearthflooranda pavementof soft signinumlaidon a basepartlyof darkgrayfillandpartlyof virginearthabovebedrock.Thisbase constituteslevelIII. Tracesof firewerevisiblein both levels.Sinceno blackslippedwarewas discoveredin levelII, whilemanysherdsof good qualityrepresenting allfourtypesof Campanawere presentin levelIII, the greaterantiquityof thislevelis evident.The redsigillatafoundin the level musthaveworkeddownthroughbreaksin the signinumfloorandshouldthereforebe considered contemporary with the red sigillatafromlevel II. This assumptionis confirmedby the character of the redsigillataitself,whichshowsno breakin continuitybetweenthe two levels.The terminus postquemfor the beginningof accumulation in levelII canbe inferredfromthe absenceof black slippedwareandItalianreliefbowls andfromits shallowdepth,whichsuggestsa shortinterval, not longerthana generation. Threefragmentsof transitionalsigillataanda few of thinwalledwareof late republicantypes found in level III maystill be consideredcontemporary with the latestblackslippedwarefrom the samelevel. The fragmentsof transitionalsigillataarethe following: AB16.1.Fragmentof wall andbeginningof floorof a smallplatewith plainrimandwide flaring wall.The fabricis fine, soft, buff with someimpurities(5YR7/4);the slip thin, firm,matte,light 95

Ibid., 241: according to the authors, "The Basilica had stood since the reoccupation of the site, apparentlymoldering.... In the depths of Taberna22 were found two fine Tiberianasses, one of A.D. 15-16 and the other of A.D. 34-37. Withina decadewhatwas left of the upperpartof the Basilica was demolishedand an Odeum was risingfrom a new floor of signinum."It has been recentlyproposed that the Basilicafell duringan earthquakerecordedin A.D. 51, which caused some damagein Rome:Collins-Clinton,Odeum, 101-3. A geological surveyof the areaaroundCosabyJ. Bourgeoishad already demonstratedthat most earthquakesin the Thyrrenianarea, including Naples and Rome, "would not have affected the

Cosa area, and there is no documented evidence as yet that suggests a damaging earthquakein the Cosa region during the period of Roman occupation" (CosA,Port, 47). 96

For a descriptionof the stratigraphyin Room 16, see COSA, Black Glaze, 105-7; CosA,Thin WalledPottery,24-25. 97 COSA,Coins, no. 125; for the dating of halved coins, see n. 70 above. 98 COSA, Thin

WalledPottery,29-30.

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THEUNDECORATED WARE SIGILLATA

red (10R5/7).Wheelmarksare evidenton interiorand exterior.No otherexampleof this shape is knownto me. AB16.2.Smallfragmentfroma shallowcarinatedbowl with plainrim;groovesalongthe edge of the rimandabovethe carination.Techniqueidenticalto the preceding,evidentlya productof the sameworkshop.Veryclose in shapeand decorationto the thinwalledfragmentCosano. 115 of Thisformdoes not havea precise FormXIX, datedto the thirdquarterof the firstcenturyB.C.99 parallelin the repertoryof Conspectus.

AB16.3.Fragmentfrom a bowl with offset rim and sloping wall like Cap.4 (Conspectusform 8.1). The fabric is fine, pinkish buff (5YR7/3); the slip is thin, reddish brown with some metallic sheen

(1OR5/4). OF THREE DOZEN FRAGMENTS of red sigillata found in level III of Room 16, a few more than a

All the cataloguedpieces dozenarerelatedto formsidentifiablewithcertaintyor goodprobability. in the qualityof the slip,whichis firm,fromsilk-shinyto glossy aretechnicallysimilar,particularly with an overall color measure of 2.5YR4/8, the typical dark red of early Arretine sigillata. Some difference can be detected in the fabric, which may vary in texture from fine to slightly gritty and in color from pinkish red (2.5YR6/4) to red (2.5YR5/6) to yellowish red (5YR5/6). The following forms can be identified: AB16.4. Fragment of wall with rim from a very large platter with plain rim and sloping wall of Conspectusform 1, GOUDINEAU 1. The diameter,which can be only approximatelycalculated, suggests a catinuspalmipedalis(cm 37). AB16.5. Fragmentof wall with rim from a smallplate with curvingwall and plain rim of Conspectus form 4.1. AB16.6. Fragmentof wall with rim from a plate with curvingwall and plain rim of Conspectusform 4.3, GOUDINEAU8. AB16.7. Fragmentof rim from a large platterwith broad articulatedrim of Conspectusform 10.1.4, GOUDINEAU6. The diameter cannot be less than 38 cm. AB16.8. Large fragmentof rim with beginning of wall from a very large platter of Conspectusform 11.1. AB16.9. Small fragmentof rim, possibly from a cup with flaringwall and broad lip similarto Conspectusform 13.2. AB16.10. Small fragment of rim with beginning of conical wall. The plain tapering rim inclines slightly inward, with narrow rouletting below. It belongs to a conical cup with incurving rim of Conspectusform 24.4. 99Ibid.,79, pls. 11,61.

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AB16.11. Fragmentof angularcarinationwith beginningof a concavewall and flatfloor.The concavity of the wall and traces of a lower handle attachmentindicate a cylindricalcup with ring-handles, 3. Derived from a similarform in the Etruscanblack slipped ware, Conspectusform 30, GOUDINEAU it appears at Bolsena in a single example that has been dated before 30 B.C.100 Four fragments are from platters with concave vertical rim and convex moldings above and below markedby grooves, Conspectusform 18. Their great similaritiesof form and technique make these platters clearlycontemporaryand probably the product of the same workshop: AB16.12. Fragment of rim with beginning of floor. AB16.13. Small fragment of rim with beginning of floor from a very large platter (diametercalculated approximatively). AB16.14. Small fragmentof upper rim from a large platter. AB16.15. Small fragment of upper rim from a very large platter (diameter approximativelycalculated but not smaller). The following rim fragmentwith external and internalmoldings and rouletting presents identification problems: AB16.16. Verysmall fragmentof finely molded rim with rouletting.The incurvingrim may suggest a campanulatecup of Conspectusform 15. Two fragmentsof feet come from the same level: AB16.17. Verysmallfragmentof high, oblique ring foot with flat restingsurface,from a platter.The height and angularityof the profile suggest a base like ConspectusB 1.10, associatedwith forms of the Augustan-Tiberianperiod. AB16.18. Fragmentof foot and beginning of floor decorated with a band of concentric grooves. It is an oblique ring foot of medium height, with angularattachmentsto the body, chamferedon the exterior to make a narrow resting surface. It matches the base ConspectusB 2.4, associated with plates of the Augustan period. EASTERN SIGILLATAA

(ESA)

A fragmentof ESA was found in level III of Room 16: AB16.19. Largefragmentof floor,with beginning of curvingwall and possible traces of foot attachment, from a plate of Eastern SigillataA. Very fine, soft, pale yellowish fabric (7.5YR8/3); thick, very firm, glossy slip of very good quality,brownish red (10R4/7).

100GOUDINEAU, 281-82.

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red sigillatawere recoveredin level II of Room 16, most of them shapelessfragmentsof plate floors. Here, as in the preceding level, a few fragmentscan still be identified as transitionalsigillata:

ABOUT ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY SHERDS of

AB16.20. Small fragment of rim with beginning of wall from a bowl with offset rim and sloping wall of Conspectusform 8, GOUDINEAU5. Fine, soft, buff fabric (5YR6.7/6); reddishbrown slip with some metallic sheen (2.5YR5/6). AB16.21. Small fragment of rim and beginning of wall from a bowl like the preceding. Fine, soft, buff fabric (2.5YR6/5); matte, light red slip (10R5/6). AB16.22. Fragment of foot and beginning of wall from a bowl with ring foot and curving wall, possibly from a bowl like the preceding. Fine, very soft, orange fabric (5YR6/6); thin slip, almost entirelyworn away on the interior,matte on the exterior,light red in color (2.5YR5/8). AB16.23. Fragmentof foot and floor,probablyfrom a plate. Fine, very soft, orangefabric (5YR6/6); reddish brown slip with silverysheen, much worn on the exterior (2.5YR5/7). Concentric grooves on the floor. All the other identifiableforms may be classifiedas earlyArretine.The fabric,generallyfine and hard (2.5YR6/6), and the slip, firm, glossy with an overall color reading of 2.5YR4/8, are technical characteristicsconsistent with such classification. Forms recognizablewith certaintyor good probability are the following: AB16.24. Very small fragmentof wall and rim from a plate with plain rim and sloping wall of Conspectusform1, GOUDINEAU 1. AB16.25. Fragmentof body and rimfrom a smallplatewith offset rim and slopingwall of Conspectus form 2.3. The plate has a straightwall meeting the floor at a sharp angle and a very small lip. AB16.26 (CE.1668). Fragmentaryplate with offset rim and curving wall of Conspectusform 5.2. The plate has a flat floor, ring foot, chamferedon the exterior,and rounded lip; grooves and a band of rouletting on the floor. AB16.27. Smallfragmentof rim and beginning of wall, from a bell-shapedcup with narrowhanging lip of Conspectusform 14. AB16.28. Large fragmentof rim with beginning of wall from a cup of Conspectusform 8. The following forms can only be identified tentatively: AB16.29. Very small fragment of rim, possibly from a bowl with offset rim and sloping wall of Conspectusform 8.1. AB16.30. Very small fragment of rim, probably from a platter or plate with broad articulatedrim of Conspectus form10, GOUDINEAU 6.


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STAMPS

No stamps were found in level III and only a fragmentaryone in level II:101 AB16.31 (CE.1667). Left end of a central rectangularframe with the letter P[ ]. of red sigillata in levels III and II of Room 16, the overall picture is sufficiently coherent to permit the following conclusions: The experimentalphase of transitionfrom black to red occurringafterthe middle of the century is coming to an end. The three examples of the bowl with sloping wall and offset rim of Conspectus form 8 (AB16.3, 20-21) are still close in shape and technique to their prototype in CampanaB and fired in the old way. On the other hand, AB16.1-2 seem to represent the random effort of some workshop to move away from the old tradition by adopting a different firing technique and forms closer to the repertory of thin walled ware. The bulk of the material from these levels, however, presents the technical characteristicsof fabric and slip traditionallyassociated with Arretine:a refined manipulationof the clay and a carefullycontrolled one-stage firing. Once again the presence of a large fragment of ESA of excellent quality in the same context indicates that the sudden and remarkabletechnical improvement of the Italian sigillatawas not free from eastern influence. The Etruscanblack slip tradition is still apparent,however, in the range of forms availableto those adoptingthe new technique. Of a dozen forms appearingin levels III and II of Room 16, half, Conspectusforms 1, 4, 5, 8, 10, and 30, have a precedentin Campanapottery.All these forms,including Conspectusform 2, which seems only loosely relatedto Campana,are representedin their earliest versions,coincidentwith the beginningof production,which, at this stage,is located chieflyin Arezzo and its environs.Conspectusforms 1, 8, 10, and30, which correspondrespectivelyto forms 1, 5, 6, and3 fromBolsena,areamongthose definedas "archaic"by Goudineauand datedbefore30 B.C.102The four fragmentsof plattersAB16.12-15 arerelatedto Conspectusform 18 but do not havean exactparallelin the examplesprovidedhere, so thereis some ambiguityof classificationbetweenvariants1 and 2. In eithercase a discrepancyoccursbetweenour terminusantequemof ca. 25 B.C. for the formation of level II of Room 16, where the fragmentswere found, and the date proposed in Conspectusfor the introductionof form 18, set, on the basis of the Oberadenfinds, in the last decade of the firstcentury B.C.103The crisp condition of the fragments,which suggestsa short period of use, and possible delay in the appearanceof the form in the north may fill the gap, at least in part. A similardiscrepancyis presentedby fragmentsAB16.9, 10, and 16, tentativelyassignedto Conspectusforms 13.2, 24.4, and 15 respectively,whose introductionis considerednot earlierthanthe middle Augustanperiod.104 Some uncertaintyin classification,due to the very small size of the fragments,urges cautionhere. FROM THE FINDS

Atrium Building I, Room 11, Level II: ThirdQuarterof the First CenturyB.C. (AB11.1-1 0, p1. 10, colorpls. 2L-30, mapsI, IV, V) Roughly contemporarywith the finds from levels II-III of Room 16 is the material recovered in level II of the adjacentRoom 11 in Atrium Building I. In its originalform this room was one of the 101COSA, Thin WalledPottery,24. The stamp CE.1666 with

103 Conspectus,82.

the signature ATEI was erroneously assigned here to level II; it belongs instead to level I.

104 Ibid, 74, 94, 78.

102

GOUDINEAU,

278-79.

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threesectionsof the L-shapedareaenclosedby a wall at the southwesterncornerof the building (see above p. 22). In the reconstructionof the Forum afterthe middle of the first centuryB.C., when the original public building was transformedinto a house, a large kitchen with a hearth platform paved with lozenge tiles (Room 11) and two appurtenances,possibly a bathroom (6) and a closet (14), were built in this area.105 Since neither structuresof chronological significancenor coins were recovered here, the dating of the contexts is based on their close similarityto those in the corresponding levels of Room 16. As in this latter room, level I of Room 11, enclosed between the fallen northwesternwall of the Basilica and the remainsof a signinum floor, contained a large amount of sigillata and thin walled pottery of evident chronological disparity.'06 Of the twenty-seven sigillata stamps found here, seventeen are in planta pedis; of the remainingten, four can be assigned with good probabilityto pre-Tiberiantimes. The materialfound in level II of Room 11 presents a more coherent aspect, like that of levels II and III of Room 16. It should be associated with the first generation of occupants of the house and be dated to the third quarterof the first centuryB.C. The fragmentsof an Italian relief bowl'07and an "Aco" type beaker'0'may representthe chronological limits of the context. Among the very limited pottery finds from levels III-IV of Room 11,109 the most relevantfor chronologyare some black glaze ware and a few fragmentsof thin walled potterywith dot barbotine decoration of late republican date."0 From the same levels come the following fragmentsof ESA. EASTERN SIGILLATAA

(ESA)

AB11.1. Three non-joining fragmentsof wall with rim from a plate with upturned rim. The fabric is very fine, soft, pale yellowish buff (5YR8/3); the slip is firm, glossy, brownish red (10R4/7). It is an example of HAYES form 4A,111TELANAFA 13,112which along with HAYES form 3 is the commonest type of plate in the first centuryB.C. The Cosa context suggests a date within the first half of the first century B.C. AB11.2. Large fragment of floor from a platter. The fabric is very fine, soft, very pale pink (7.5YR8/3); the slip is silk-shinyto dull, a little mottled, red (10R4/7). It belongs with good probability to a large platter of ESA. A SCORE OF FRAGMENTSof red sigillatawere recovered in level II of Room 11. An overall picture of early Arretine can be drawn from their technical characteristics.Their slip shows a prevailing uniformity of color, varying in hue from lOR to 2.5YR, with a constant value of 4 and variations between 7 and 8 in chromabut gradationin qualityfrom dull to glossy and from worn to firm,with some tendency to better preservationon the interior than on the exterior. Their fabric is fine and ratherfirm,with color varyingin hue from 2.5YR to 5YR and from 4 to 6 in chroma,but preserving an almost constant value of 6 (occasionally7). 105 COSAIII, 238.

110Ibid., no. 10, pp. 49, 262, pls. 1, 55; no. 90, pp. 71, 269,

pls. 8, 60. 106 COSA, Thin WalledPottery,28-29. 107 COSA, Megarian,no.

1 112

108

HAYES,

15-16.

68, pp. 174, 226, pls. 4, 15.

COSA, Aco, no. 1, pp. 241, 275, pls. 1, 3.

109 COSA, Thin WalledPottery,25.

TELANAFA,285-97.


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The followingformscanbe identified: froma platewithplainrimand AB11.3.Largefragmentof wallwithrimandbeginningof carination the is slopingwall.The fabricis fine,pinkish(10R6/6); slip worn,dull,red (10R4.5/8).It belongs 1. to a plate of Conspectus form 1, GOUDINEAU

AB1 1.4. Small fragment of wall with rim and beginning of carinationfrom a plate or platter like that above. The fabric is fine, very hard, veined orange-buff(2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm,moderately glossy, red, brownish on the exterior (10R4/7). AB11.5. Verysmallfragmentof wall with rimpresumablyfrom a plate or platterlike that above. The fabric is very fine, a little soft, reddish yellow (5YR6/5); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,red (10R/8). AB1 1.6. Small fragment of wall with rim, with technical characteristicsidentical to AB1 1.5, from a plate or platter.An external groove below the rim seems exceptional. AB1 1.7. Smallnon-joiningfragmentof rim and verylargefragmentof floor from a platterwith curving wall and offset rounded rim. The fabricis fine, slightlygritty,veryhard, pinkishbuff (2.5YR6/4); the slip is generally firm, silk-shiny,worn on the upper exterior, red (10R4/8). It corresponds to Pucci, Atlante, form XI, 6,113 and it is similar to GOUDINEAU12b. It appears to be intermediate between Conspectusforms 5.1 and 5.2, the wall similar to the former, the lip to the latter. This is considered an earlyAugustan form. AB1 1.8. Small fragment of wall with rim from a bowl with offset rim and sloping wall. The fabric is fine, hard, dark pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is glossy red (2.5YR4/8) on the exterior, duller on the interior.It probablybelongs to a cup like Conspectusform 8.1.2, GOUDINEAU 5, classifiedamong the archaic forms from Bolsena. AB1 1.9. Fragment of a broad articulated rim from a large platter. The fabric is fine, light pink (5YR7/4); the slip is firm,very glossy,red (2.5YR4/8). It belongs to a platterthat looks like a slightly different version of Conspectusform 10.1, GOUDINEAU 6, one of the archaicforms from Bolsena. AB11.10. Fragment of wall with rim from a cup with flaring wall and hanging lip. The fabric is fine, reddish yellow (5YR6/6); the slip is dull and worn on the exterior, glossier on the interior, red (2.5YR4/8). Probably it belongs to a cup of Conspectusform 13.2-3, GOUDINEAU 7, classified among the archaicforms from Bolsena. To conclude, if some forms from levels II-III of Room 16 and level II of Room 11 appear to predate by a decade or so their counterpartsfrom the transalpineregions, on which the chronology of the earlyforms of Conspectusmostly relies, an explanationmay be found in the proximityof Cosa to the original centers of production.

113 Pucci,

Atlante, pl. CXXII,3.

2

*

TheComingof Age

TheAugustanPeriod

argequantitiesof Italiansigillatawererecoveredfromstratapostdatingthe partialreconstructionof Cosain theAugustanperiod,in spiteof the reducedsizeof the area.Satisfactory chronoscarcesincemostof thematerialcomesfromunreliablecontexts,either logicaldataarenevertheless or disturbedlevelsorelselevelswithevidenceof lengthyaccumulation. Thechronological superficial precisionreachedin theclassification of sigillataunearthedelsewherein Etruria'provedunattainable at Cosa.The sigillatacan be arrangedhereonlyin threebroadgroups:Augustan,Tiberian-early Claudian,andClaudian-post-Claudian periods.If moreprecisedatesarerequiredwithineachof theseperiods,theymustrelyon evidenceprovidedby othersites,keepingin mindagainthe possibleearlierappearanceof sometypesherethanin the provinces. Our knowledgeof the sigillataat Cosa in the Augustanage relieson the evidenceof three deposits,one in the areaof the Forumandtwo in the residentialarea;the lattertwo areRoom4 in the House of the Birdsand the sewerof StreetM in proximityto the House of the Skeleton(see mapII). L

Houseof theBirds,Room4 Filling:ca.EarlyandMiddleAugustanPeriods (HB4.1-11, pl. 11, mapsII-III) Room4 in the northeasternsectionof the House of the Birds(see abovep. 14) had been, in its originalform,the backcourtof a republicanhousethat,2in the reconstruction of Augustantimes, wasconnectedto a secondhouseadjacentto theeast.3Togethertheybecamea large,double-atrium house,the Houseof theBirds,so namedafterthe subjectof its SecondStyledecorationin the alaof the mainatrium.4The court,a rectangular spaceaccessibleby a stonestairfromabove,contained a largerectangularspill basin over a vaultedcesspool.5The modestquantityof materialin the sedimentof the pit representsthe accumulation thattook placeaftera cleaningperformedshortly beforethe destructionof the originalhouse.6In additionto the exampleof transitionalsigillata previouslymentioned-the platebaseHB.7, C68.608(see abovep. 14)-the sedimentcontained two unclassifiedRomanrepublicancoins,C68.623andC68.639;7threeRomanwheelmadelamps

I GOUDINEAU,245-75. According to P. Kenrick, the dates suggestedin the CorpusVasorumArretinorumare "inthe vast majorityof cases extremely tentative" (OCK, 8).

4Ibid., 176-77.

2 CosAIV, 45-47.

6

3 Ibid., 161-67.

7 COSA, Coins, no.

5 Ibid.,47-49.

31

Ibid.,49, n. 12; CosA,Aco, 245. 381.


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with black slip, C68.591, C68.592, C68.708;8a few unidentifiablefragmentsof thin walled pottery, and a few specimens of black slip ware, the most conspicuous a fragmentaryplate of CampanaB Lamboglia form 6, Morel 1430-40 (C68.578). In the reoccupationof Augustantimes the originalfloor of beaten earthin the court was buried under a massive fill of reddish earth and debris (Room 4, 1), in order to create a uniform extension of the new house toward the northwest for a triclinium.9Only a patch of the new flooring made of square tesserae in white limestone is preserved,10 with the consequence that the fill layer cannot be considereda clearlysealed deposit. Indeed it included fragmentsof Second Stylepaintedplasterthat must have belonged to the decorationof the room. A dozen black slip fragmentsin the same context indicate that material preceding the destruction of the area was also utilized in the filling.11Two specimens associated in technique with transitionalsigillatacan also be included in this group: HB4.1. Largefragmentof floor from a shallow bowl with high flaringfoot. The fabric is fine, pinkish buff (5YR7/4); the slip is red (10R4/8) mottled dark reddish gray (10R4/1; 1OR3/1)with some metallic sheen and incrustation on the surface. It suggests the form of a rimless bowl similar to Lamboglia B 8, Morel 2245.12 HB4.2. Smallfragmentof wall with plain rim. The fabricis hard, slightlygritty,pinkish (2.5YR7/4); the slip firm,matte, purple-brown (1OR4/3).It probablybelongs to a plate with plain rim and sloping wall of Conspectus form 1.1, GOUDINEAU 1. From the same fill layer the following items were also retrieved: * An unclassifiedRoman republican coin (C68.561)13and a Victoriatus (C68.563).14 * The rim of an amphoraof Dressel type lb (C68.491), double stamped SE.L.EVC. (It is probably a product of the Sestius factory at Cosa, Will type 4b, datable to the second and third quartersof the first century B.C.15The rim with part of the neck from a second amphorain the fill [C68.507] may also belong to an example of Dressel type lb.) * Fragmentsfrom about a dozen lamps, half of them still datable before the end of the republican period, the other half belonging to volute nozzle types dated from the resettlementonward. (This lattergroup includes C68.520,16a triangularnozzle lamp,17and C68.560,l8 a double nozzle lamp,19 types produced from the beginning of the Augustan age.) * Two fragmentaryshallow glass bowls, C68.505 of opaque white in millefiori glass and C68.519 in striped mosaic glass, dated to the late first century B.C.20 8

COSA, Lamps,nos. 11, 88, 89.

15 On this type of amphora,see E. LydingWill, "TheRoman Amphoras,"in COSA,Port 182-85.

9 COSA IV, 48, 163; COSA, Aco, 245. 16COSA,Lamps,no. 453. In the classificationof the lampsfrom Cosa it belongs to group Bi of the triangularnozzle lamps.

10COSAIV, 175. 1 For a detailed description of the materialincluded in the filling, see COSA,Aco, 245-46. 12

LAMBOGLIA,Classificazione

XXII; BAILEYA.

18COSA, Lamps,no. 687.

preliminare, 148-49; MOREL, 19

152. 13 COSA, Coins, no. 14 Ibid.,

17 LOESCHCKE I; BRONEER

no. 29.

381.

20

LOESCHCKE III; BRONEER XXI; BAILEYD.

COsA,Aco, 246, nn. 37, 38.

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Fromthesefindsit seemsreasonableto concludethatthe fillunderthetricliniumin the House of the Birdscontaineddebrisfromthe olderrepublicanhousesalongwith materialrepresenting the beginningof reoccupation.Thisis alsoclearlyreflectedin the thinwalledwarefromthe same filling,whichcanbe easilydividedinto two groups.The firstincludesfragmentsof CosaformsI, VII, andXXIII,none of whichcouldbe laterthanthe end of the republicanperiod;the second, severaluncoatedfragmentsof formsXXXV andXXXVIandonlytwo metallicglazedfragments with sanddecoration.An uncoatedbowl of new formwith thorndecoration,C68.475,and two examplesof the localproductionof Aco typeware21 confirmthe unmistakably Augustancharacter, probablyno laterthanthe endof the century,of thissecondgroup.Thefollowingidentifiablesigillataformsarecontemporary withthis secondgroup: HB4.3.Fragmentof wallwithrimfroma platewithplainrimandcurvingwall.A thingroovemarks the transitionfromfloorto wallon the exterior.The fabricis fine,soft,pinkish(5YR7/4);the slip is firm,matteon the exterior,moderatelyshinyon the interior,red (1OR4/8),slightlymottledon the lowerexterior.It is closeto Conspectus form4.3, GOUDINEAU 8. HB4.4. Twojoiningfragmentsof wallwith rimand beginningof floorfroma platewith narrow, slightlyhanginglip and roundedtransitionfromwall to floor.Lightprofilinglines appearon the innerfaceof the rim.Thefabricis fine,hard,lightpinkish(5YR7/3);theslipis matte,worn,lightred (10R5/8),coveredwithheavyincrustation.It belongsto Conspectus form12.3,GOUDINEAU17. HB4.5. Fragmentof wallwith rimandbeginningof floorfroma platewith a narrowhanginglip andangulartransitionfromwallto floor.Profilinglinesappearon the innerandouterfacesof the rim.Thefabricis fine,hard,pinkish(2.5YR6/6);the slipis glossy,darkred (2.5YR4/8).It suggests a transitionalform similarto Conspectus16.

HB4.6.Fragmentof rimwithbeginningof bodyfroma cupwithconcavemoldedverticalrimand conicalbody.The outerlip band is markedby two simplegrooves,the innerconnectionof rim andbodyby a profilingline.Thefabricis fine,rathersoft,pinkish(2.5YR5/4);the slipis shiny,red (10R4/8).The simplicityof decorationsuggestsa formlike Conspectus 22.6. HB4.7. Largefragmentof bodywithlowermoldingof the rimfroma cup like the preceding.The convexmoldingis rouletted,anda profilinglineon the innerfacemarksthe connectionof rimand body.Thefabricis fine,hard,lightpinkish(2.5YR7/4);the slipis firm,shiny,red (2.5YR4/8),with heavyincrustationon the surface.It belongsto Conspectus form22, GOUDINEAU 27. The followingfoot canbe connectedwith specificformsonlyby approximation: HB4.8. Fragmentof floorwith ringfoot andbeginningof wall.The flaringwallmeetsthe floorat sharpangle.Thefabricis fine,hard,pinkish(10R6/6);the slipis firm,matte,red (10R4/7),mottled darkerred on the bottom.The foot profileis similarto the base Conspectus B 3.1 associatedwith the earliestformsof Italiansigillata.

21

Ibid., 276, no. 7; 277, no. 14.

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STAMPS(PL. 53)

HB4.9 (C68.527). Fragmentarybell-shaped cup with concave verticalrim and chamferedring foot. The convex moldings bounding the rim are rouletted, and profilinglines appearon the inner face. On the floor, framed by two concentric grooves, is the stamp CALI in a rectangularframe with horizontal branch (CVArr362 = OCK 487); on the bottom, an illegible graffito.The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish; the slip is firm, glossy, red. This is an example of Conspectusform 17.1. The activity of the Arretine potter Calidius Strigo is dated ca. 15 B.C.-A.D. 15. HB4.10 (C68.497). Half of a very narrowring foot with floor and beginning of conical body. It has a small bead molding on the exterior and a deep indentation under the floor. On the floor is the stamp MVALERI/ EVHEM[ER] in a rectangularframe (CVArr2220 = OCK 2316), one corner missing, within two incised concentric circles. The fabric is fine; the slip is silk-shiny,firm, red. The shape and small size of the foot suggest a cup like Conspectusform 24.1.2. The potter M. Valerius Euhemerus was active, possibly in Pisa, ca. 10 B.C.-A.D. 10. HB4.11 (C68.494). Largefragmentof floor with chamferedringfoot. On the floor is a centralstamp L. S. G. in a rectangularframe (CVArr1681 = OCK 1824), within two concentric incised lines, and on the bottom a graffito of which only the first two letters (A are clearlylegible; after a gap two more letters foHlow,the first probably R or B. The fabric is fine, hard, light pinkish;the slip is firm, matte, red, mottled darkerred on the bottom. The profile of the foot, similarto the base Conspectus B 2.4, suggests a plate of the Augustanperiod like GOUDINEAU 15, Conspectusform 12. The activity of the Arretine potter L. Saufeius Gausa is dated ca. 15 B.C.-A.D. 10. FROMTHETYPOLOGY of forms the following conclusions can be drawnabout the sigillatacontained in the filling under Room 4 in the House of the Birds: While a large majorityof the material unearthed in levels III and II of Room 16 and level II of Room 11 of Atrium Building I revealed a very early stage in the production of sigillata, with half the forms still having prototypes in Campanapottery,in the filling of Room 4 of the House of the Birds such a connection is limited to fragmentHB4.3, from a plate of Conspectusform 4. The others are typical red sigillataforms corresponding to an Oberaden-early Haltern spectrum. The conical cup with vertical rim, that great favorite in the northern camps during the Augustan age, is present in the fill in several variations:with slightly concave (HB4.6-7) or bell-shaped (HB4.9) walls, its rim decorated with the usual rouletting (HB4.7) or simple grooves (HB4.6). In this latter fragment the refinement of execution does not correspond to the supposed characteristicsof its subform (Conspectus22.6) and therefore does not necessarilybelong to its later date. The presence in the same fill of the fragment of a plate of Conspectusform 12 (HB4.4) supports the suggestion, based on the Haltern evidence, that for a while cups of form 22 were being produced and used alongside plates of form 12. The stamps appearingon HB4.9-11 have been previouslydiscussed.22It is sufficientto repeat here that none of the signaturesof these potters is recorded in plantapedis. It seems therefore reasonableto conclude that the filling supportingthe northeastextension of the House of the Birds included fragmentsof sigillatarepresentingthe tablewarein use during the first decades of occupation of the house, probably not later than the end of the first century B.C. 22

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StreetM Sewer:ca. Middle and Late AugustanPeriods (MS.1-18, pls. 12-13, map II) A similar facies emerges from the examination of the material recovered in 1970 from a section of the sewer of Street M close to the intersection with Street 5, at the north corner of the housing East Block.23Street M, which runs from southwest to northeast, from Tower 9 to north of Tower 20 of the city wall, crosses Street 5, a main arterybisecting the town from its Southeast Gate to the Horreum near the Northwest Gate, at the north corner of the House of the Skeleton. While Street 5 became an important thoroughfare again, Street M remained out of use, and its blocked sewer became a dumping ground for the houses that had been rebuilt to the southeast. The contents of the sewer therefore present a basic affinityto the materialenclosed in the filling of Room 4 in the House of the Birds, but it seems to cover a slightly longer period of time, possibly reaching the beginning of the principate of Tiberius. To this period can be approximativelydated the severalfragmentsof lamps retrievedfrom the sewer:24the nozzle of a Vogelkopflampe,an entire nozzle and fragmentsof four others from volute lamps, a triangularheat shield decorated with palmette,25and a score of top discuses with various decorations (hand with spear,crossed clubs, branch), among them C70.336,26a fragmentarydiscus with Europa on the bull from a triangularnozzle lamp.27The same type appearstwice more at Cosa, in level I of Room 22 of Atrium Building 1,28 whose contents mainly postdate the beginning of the Claudian period but also included a few examples of Augustan sigillata.29A fragmentprobably of a late Italo-Megarianbowl should represent a remainderfrom the previous function of the sewer. The many fragments of thin walled pottery and the few of Aco type ware found in the sewer demonstrate chronological coherence. Neither typical republican ware, such as the ubiquitous dot-decorated situlae of Cosa form I, nor the popular Tiberian ware with metallic glaze appears in the sewer, with the possible exception of an early sand-decoratedbowl of this type. Identifiable forms, technical features,and decorativedevices of the thin walled pottery from the sewer are those of the Augustan period.30The same conclusion applies to the Aco type fragments,three beakers31 and a two-handled hemispherical cup32found in the sewer. The cup and one of the beakers, both signed by the local potter Cusonius, reveal in the choice and arrangementof the decorativemotifs the influence of the contemporaryproduction of the workshop of Rasinius. Finally,a fragmentarybulbous unguentariumin translucentcolorlessglass (C70.303), also found in the sewer, can be loosely dated to the first half of the first centuryA.D.33 Three score fragmentsof red Italiansigillatawere retrievedfrom the sewer,most of them sharing the same very good technical features:the fabric is fine, hard, pinkish beige (from 2.5YR7/4 to 2.5YR6/4), sometimes with a yellowish tinge (5YR6.5/6); the slip is very firm, silk-shiny,from red to dark red (from IOR4/8 to 2.5YR4/7-2.5YR4/8). The walls tend to be thin. 23COSA IV, 125; COSA, Aco, 242.

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24 COSA, Aco, 242-43.

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COSA, Lamps,nos. 385, 386.

11 in the same room is securelydated Tiberian-early Level Claudian:see below and CosA,Thin WalledPottery,27-28.

25

LOESCHCKE III; BRONEER XXI; BAILEYD, beginning in the Augustan period.

26 COSA, Lamps, no. 428. In the classification of the lamps

from Cosa it belongs to group A2 of the triangularnozzle lamps. 27 LOESCHCKE I; BRONEER

30 For a detailed description of the thin walled ware, see

COSA, Aco, 243. 31

Ibid., 276-77, nos. 9-11.

32

Ibid., 275, no. 3.

XXII; BAILEYA, beginning in the

early Augustan period.

33 Ibid., 242.


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The following forms can be identified with some degree of accuracy: MS.1. Very small fragment of a tiny rim with beginning of floor likely from a plate with plain rim and sloping wall. The external groove at the attachment of the floor, the very thin wall, and the excellent technique suggest a late example of Conspectusform 1.2, GOUDINEAU 1. MS.2. Two non-joining fragments of wall with rim from a bowl with bead rim and sloping wall, internal grooves at lip and attachmentof floor. They may belong to a cup of Conspectusform 8.2, GOUDINEAU5.

MS.3. Fragment of floor with beginning of wall from a flat-based cup with curving wall and concentric groove on inner floor. It belongs to a cup of Conspectusform 9, GOUDINEAU 10. MS.4. Two non-joiningfragmentsof wall with rim from a bell-shaped cup with narrowhanginglip, grooves on externalmid-body and internallip and body. The wall is exceedinglythin. The fragments belong to a cup of Conspectusform 14.4, GOUDINEAU 16. MS.5. Fragmentof rim with beginning of floor from a platter with concave vertical rim. The concavity is bordered by grooves, and multiple grooves mark the attachment of the floor externally; grooves on inner lip and mid-rim internally.It belongs to a platter of Conspectusform 18.2. MS.6. Fragmentof rim molded at top and bottom, possibly from a platterwith verticalrim;internal grooves on lip; slip much worn on exterior.Though the diametercannotbe ascertained,the thickness of the wall would imply a platter ratherthan a plate. It may suggest a form like Conspectus20.4.3, but the true direction of the wall remainsuncertain. MS.7. Fragment of rim with beginning of floor from a plate with convex rim molded on top and bottom and steps between rim and floor;multiple grooves on moldings and steps, grooves on lip and bottom of rim on the interior.Technicallyit is a little different from the majorityof the other fragments: the fabric is fine, hard, pinkish beige (5YR7/4); the slip is firm, glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/8). It belongs to a plate similarto Conspectusform 21 but not identical to any of the examples given there. MS.8. Fragmentof wall with rim from a conical cup with concave vertical rim bounded by convex moldings decorated with rouletting;a groove at mid-body on the exterior.The profiles of the outward sloping rim and slightly convex wall indicate a form like Conspectus22.2. MS.9. Fragmentof wall with rim from a conical cup with narrowvertical rim bounded below by a rouletted molding and ending in a plain lip. It is covered with heavy lime incrustation.It suggests a form similar,but not identical, to Conspectus23.1. MS.10. Fragment of the upper portion of wall and lip of a hemispherical cup with outturned lip and restrictedwall. It has an external groove at the point of restrictionand internalgrooves on the lip at outturning. The wall is very thin; the matte, worn slip is covered with gray incrustation. It belongs to a form like Conspectus32.1.

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MS.11. Fragmentof rim with the beginning of the wall of a hemisphericalcup with narrowvertical rim trimmed below with a flange. The flange is rouletted;the lip has multiple grooves at top of the exterior and a groove on the interior. The wall is very thin. It belongs to a form like Conspectus 34.1, dated late Tiberian. MS.12. Fragmentof rim and beginning of the wall from a cup like the preceding. There is a rosette appliqued on the rim. The wall is thin, the surface entirely covered with heavy lime incrustation.It belongs to a form like Conspectus34.1. THE FOLLOWING BASESwere recovered from the sewer:

MS.13. Large fragmentof floor and foot from a large platter.The exterior of the foot flares.There are two sets of concentric circles on the floor;the lower surfaceis uncoated. The profile of the foot is very close to the base ConspectusB 1.9 associated with plates of Augustan-Tiberiandate. MS.14. Fragmentof bottom with ringfoot and beginningof flaringwall from a smallcup. The transition from foot to wall is rounded with a groove on the inner face; the wall is thin; the slip is glossy. It belongs to a small cup of bell-shaped form. The foot profile corresponds to the base Conspectus B 3.9, usually associated with cups produced in the Augustan period, more rarelyTiberian. MS.15. Two joining fragments of bottom and beginning of flaringwall from a cup similar to the preceding, with concentric grooves on the inner face and traces of a graffito on the underside of the floor. The wall is very thin; the slip is duller than in the preceding. STAMPS (PL. 54)

MS.16 (C70.328). Fragment of floor from a small bowl with a stamp in an oval frame surrounded by a circulargroove. The stamp bears the signatureC. SENT[I] (CVArr1732 = OCK 1861). This type of stamp of the potter C. Sentius has been dated to ca. 20 B.C.-A.D. 20.34 MS.17 (C70.321). Fragmentof floor from a platterwith a stamp in a rectangularframe bearing the signature CHAEREA/C.VOLVSE (OCK 2504), a slave of C. Volusenus Nestor, presumably an Arretine potter active A.D.1-20.35 IN ADDITIONTO these red sigillatafragmentsthe sewer contained the following example in black

sigillatatechnique: MS.18. A fragment of rim and beginning of wall from a conical cup with vertical rim bounded above and below by convex moldings decorated with rouletting. The fabric has the same characteristics as red sigillata;the slip is good, firm, black-brownish,with some metallic luster.It belongs to Conspectusform 22. 34 The signature of the potter C. Sentius often appears in

35 The name is that of one of many slavesin the workshop of

stamps radially arranged and only exceptionally in planta pedis. See CosA,Aco, 242.

C. Volusenus Nestor (CVArr2469-70 = OCK 2499-2500), the latestphase of which seemsto coincidewith the beginning of signaturesin plantapedis. See COSA,Aco, 242.

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Two decoratedArretinevases,cataloguenos. 34 and 83, were discoveredin the sewer.No. 34 is four non-joiningfragments,probablyfroma chalicewithverticalrimof Conspectus form9, decoratedwith nautiliand rosetteson rope spikes(seebelow p. 132).Both formand decoration of the workof M. PerenniusBargathesandcannotbe earlierthanthe end of the arecharacteristic Augustan-beginning of theTiberianperiod.No. 83 is a fragmentprobablyfroma tallovoidbeaker decoratedwith a stylizedacanthuschaliceandrosette(seebelowp. 163). In conclusion,the bulkof the redsigillatarecoveredfromthe sewerof StreetM canbe dated on the basisof contextmiddleandlateAugustan;in agreementwiththisdateit findsits best comparandaamongthe materialfromHaltern.The tinyfragmentMS.1of Conspectus form1 andthe fragmentMS.3of Conspectus form9 representtheupperlimit;fragmentsMS.10of Conspectus form 32.1 andthe decoratedchaliceno. 34 fromthe Bargathesworkshop,its lowerlimit,the beginning of the Tiberianperiod.The presenceof MS.11,12 in this contextis eitherintrusive,or the initial dateof Conspectus form34 shouldbe madeearlyTiberian.

Dumpat the NorthwestCornerof theBasilica,LevelsII, I:AugustanPeriod (BNWII.1-48, BNWI.1-58, pls. 13-23, mapIV) Thelargestamountof Italiansigillatadatableto theAugustanperiodfoundat Cosawasdiscovered in the summerof 1951in anareaoutsidethenorthwestcornerof theBasilica.36 Theareais delimited on the southwestby a remnantof Street7, one of the four streetsthatin the originaltown plan boundedtheenvironsof theForum.In theexpansionof the civiccenter,partof Street7 wasoverrun by constructionfirstof the ComitiumandCuriaandlaterof the Basilica,builtaroundthe middleof the secondcenturyB.C.Theplanof the latterrequiredcoveringnot onlyStreet7 but alsothe slope downbeyond,andmassiveretainingwalls,rising2.30-3.50m abovethe rock,anddeepfillshadto be added on the northeast and northwest.37Outside this northwest corner lay a deep accumulation

of materialdumpedtherein the Augustanperiod,eithergraduallyor at two successivetimes.The verynatureof the terrainatthispointwouldnot havefavoredthe formationof a clearstratigraphic sequence,so the chronologicalsignificanceof the two levels,whichfor the sakeof precisionwere establishedduringthe excavation,remainsto be proved.Sinceno coinswerefoundin eitherlevel, chronologyhasto dependon the ceramicsand,to a lesserdegree,on the lamps. The absenceof anyfragmentof Italianreliefbowlsfromso largea quantityof ceramicsis an indicationthatdumpingdid not startbeforethe reoccupationof the Forumandthe adaptationof the adjacentAtriumBuildingI to habitation. Threefragmentsof Aco typebeakers,probablyby thelocalpotterCusonius,38 allfoundin level II, pointto an Augustandate. Of the manyfragmentsof thin walledpottery,those belongingto identifiableformsareuncoated;with the exceptionof a singleexamplefoundin level 1,39theywerefound,like the three specimensof Aco beakers,in levelII of BNW.Whilethe conicalbowl of formXXII,represented by two examples,40 is a survivalfromlate republicantimes,all the otherformsappearfirstin the 36 For a

preliminaryinterpretationof these strata,see COSA,

38 COSA, Aco, 278, no. 19; 279, no. 23; 280, no. 29.

ThinWalledPottery,25-27. 37 For the successive stages in the development of the north-

easternside of the Forum and the northerncornerin particular, see BROWN,Cosa,22-24, 56; CosAIII, 113, 121, 207.

39COSA,ThinWalledPottery,279-80, no. 195. 40

Ibid., 105-6, nos. 177-78.

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Augustan period. They are the conical beaker of form XXXII,41the hemisphericalbowl of form

XXXVI,42 the conicalbowl of formXXXVII,43 the bell-shapedbowl of formXXXVIII,44 the twohandled round carinatedcup of form XXXIX,45 the two-handled carinatedcup of form XL,46and the two-handled hemisphericalcup of form XLI.47 Sixteen fragmentsof lamps, all from level II of BNW, are recorded in the Cosa catalogue. Five of them can be dated to late republican-earlyimperial times: CD.1223 is a fragmentary example of a Warzenlampe;48 CD. 1224 is a fragment of a lamp with swallowtailears;49CD. 1221a-b, CD. 1222, and CD.1225 are fragmentsof Vogelkopflampen.50 Ten fragments belong to volute lamps of early imperial times. Four of these, CD.1219, CD.1230, CD.1227, and CD.675,51arevolute lamps with triangularnozzle52datableAugustan-Tiberian;two, CD.734 and CD.1226,53are early examples of volute lamps with round nozzle,54datable Augustan-Claudian. A third example of the same type, CD. 1229,55 may belong to the Tiberian period. Two decorated discus fragments,CD.674 and CD. 123 1,56and a triangularheat shield, CD. 1228,57 cannot be precisely dated. The only example of a definitelylater date, to the point that it should be considered intrusive,is CD.1206,58a base fragmentfrom a lamp with simple round nozzle,59a type that does not seem to appear until a late Tiberian date.60 The preliminaryconclusion that can be reached from this concentration of thin walled ware and lamps in level II of BNW is that the lower stratumpreservesthe early characterof the majority of the finds, most of which can be dated before the end of the first century B.C.The reason for the concentration of this materialonly in the lower level defies logical explanation. The accumulation of sigillata in area BNW follows instead a different pattern: a diffusion of fragmentsthroughoutthe two levels, with greaterconcentrationin level I. Forty-twoshapelessfragments should be added to the cataloguedexamples from level II and ninety-twoshapelessfragments to the catalogued examples from level I.

41 Ibid., 101-2, nos. 165-66, 168. 42

oldest lamps of group BAILEYBiii (BAILEY,132, 135 f.), dated Augustan-Claudian.

Ibid., 106-11, no. 184. 52 LOESCHCKE I; BRONEER

XXII; BAILEYA.

4 Ibid., 111-12, nos. 195, 197. 53 CosA,Lamps,nos. 514, 515.

44Ibid., 112, no. 199. 54 LOESCiHCKE IV; BRONEER XXXIII; BAILEYBi. 45 Ibid., 112-13, no. 201. 46

55 COSA, Lamps,no. 533.

Ibid., 113-14, no. 205. 56

Ibid., nos. 622, 624.

47 Ibid., 114-16, no. 206. 48

COSA, Lamps,no. 241.

57 Ibid., no. 717. 58 Ibid., no. 949.

49Ibid., no. 295. 59 LOESCHCKE VIII; BRONEER XXV;BAILEYO-P. 50 Ibid., nos. 327-29. 60

Ibid., nos. 352, 438, 463, 472. In the classificationof the lamps from Cosa the first two belong to groups A1-2 of the triangularnozzle lamps, the last two to group B2. Cosa group Al corresponds to BAILEY Ai, dated Augustan-Tiberian (BAILEY, 127). Cosa groups A2 and B2 correspond to BAILEY Bii of the Augustan-Tiberian period and to the 51

The beginning date for the production of these lamps is set either in Augustan or in Tiberian times, since in the last period they are certainlypresent in Switzerland.More recently,D. M. Baileyhas set the beginning of type 0, which includes the oldest roundnozzle lamps,in Claudiantimes:C. Pavolini, "Lucerna-Mediterraneo occidentale," in E.A.A., secondosupplemento1971-1994, 456.

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BNWII.1-48 (PLS. 13-17) Only three fragmentsfound in level II, nos. BNWII.1-3, can be defined as transitionalsigillata: BNWII.1. Fragment of sharp angular connection of floor with the beginning of a sloping wall, probably from a platter of Conspectusform 1 or 2. BNW11.2. Large fragmentof floor with ring foot from a plate. The foot is almost vertical,with flat resting surface and a small groove on the exterior. There are two concentric grooves on the inner face of the floor. BNWII.3. Small fragment of wall from a cup with a plain rim and sloping wall, probably of Conspectusform 7, GOUDINEAU 2. BNWII.1 and 2 share the same technical characteristicsbut are of different wall thicknesses. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is thin, matte, red (1OR5/8)with a faint metallic sheen in BNW 11.1,mottled with some sheen on the under surfacein BNW 11.2.BNW I1.3 shares the same colors of fabric and slip, but the fabric is a little softer and the slip matte and worn. Among the sigillatafragmentsthe following forms can be identified: BNWII.4. Small fragment of wall with rim and beginning of floor from a plate with plain rim and sloping wall; a small groove on the exterior above floor attachment. The fabric is fine, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is matte, worn on the rim, dark red (2.5YR4/7). Probably it belongs to a plate of Conspectusform 1.2. BNWII.5. Smallfragmentof wall with rim from a plate with plain rim and curvingwall with internal bipartition.The fabric is very fine, slightly soft, pinkish (2.5YR6/5); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/7). It belongs to a plate sharingfeatures of Conspectusforms 4.4-5. BNWII.6. Fragmentof wall with lip from a plate with curvingwall and outturned rounded lip. The fabric is fine, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is matte, worn on the upper rim, dark red (2.5YR4/8). It belongs to Conspectusform 5.3. BNWII.7 (CD.904). Four joining fragments(preservinga little less than half) from a cup with offset rim and sloping wall on a ring foot; a groove at mid-body on the interior and two small concentric circles incised around the center of the floor. The wall is very thin; the fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip firm, silk-shiny,red (10R4/6), of good quality.It is a cup of Conspectusform 8. 1, GOUDINEAU 5. BNWII.8. Two non-joining fragmentsof wall with rim from a cup with sloping wall very similarto the preceding in form and technique. The two following examples share the technical characteristicsof BNWII.7, 8: BNWII.9. Small fragment of wall with rim from a cup with offset rim and sharply sloping wall,

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BNWII.10. Small fragment of wall with rim from a cup with offset rim and sharply sloping wall, probably of Conspectusform 8.3. Fine ribbing of the exterior of the rim and a groove below the rim on the interior. BNWII.1 1. Two joining fragmentsfrom a plate with broad articulatedrim and wide vertical ring foot. The fabric is fine, a little soft, pinkish;the slip is matte, a little worn, red. It is a version of the plate of Conspectusform 10.3, GOUDINEAU6. BNWII.12. Largefragmentof wall with rim and beginning of floor from a plate with broad articulated rim. The fabricis fine, hard, pinkish (5YR6/6); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,darkred (2.5YR4/8) with some metallic sheen recallinga transitionaltechnique. It belongs to a plate of Conspectus form 10.3. A large fragmentof plate floor with ring foot decoratedwith a band of roulettingmay belong to the same vessel; it is technicallyvery similarto the wall fragment,but the fabric is slightly darker and the slip a little duller. BNWII. 13. Smallfragmentof wall with lip and beginning of floor from a plate with verticalhanging lip. The wall is very thin, the fabric fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip firm, silk-shiny,darkred (2.5YR4/8). It belongs to a plate of Conspectusform 11.1, GOUDINEAU 15.

BNWII.14. Small fragmentof wall with lip from a plate of Conspectusform 11.1. Shape and technique like the preceding. BNWII.15. Large fragment of lip with beginning of wall from a platter of Conspectusform 11.1. Technical characteristicsas of BNWII.13 and 14. THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLESof

Conspectusform 12 share technical characteristics,a fabric that is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6), and a slip firm, ratherglossy, dark red (2.5YR4/8), of good quality. In BNWII.16 the slip is silk-shinywith a purple-brown tinge (10R4/5) and some metallic sheen, which recalls a transitionaltechnique: BNWII.16. Small fragment of wall with lip from a plate with narrow hanging lip. A faint groove on the inner wall. From a plate of Conspectusform 12.1, GOUDINEAU 15. BNWII.17. Two large fragmentsof wall with lip and beginning of floor from a plate with narrow hanging lip of Conspectusform 12.2. BNWII.18. Two fragmentsof wall with lip and beginning of floor with ring foot from a plate with narrow hanging lip. A groove defining the lip on the inner wall and circularincisions on the floor. From a plate of Conspectusform 12.3, GOUDINEAU 17. BNWII.19. Largefragmentof wall with lip and beginning of floor from a platterwith narrowhanging lip. Two grooves mark the transitions from concavity to convexity in the profile of the inner wall. From a platter of Conspectusform 12.4. BNWII.20.Twofragmentsof wallwithlip froma cup withnarrowhanginglip. A grooveat mid-bodyon the interior.The wall is thin;the fabricis fine, hard,pinkish(2.5YR6/6);the slip is firm,silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/8).Probablyfrom a bell-shapedcup with narrowhanginglip of Conspectus form 14.1.

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BNWII.21. Small fragment of narrow hanging lip with beginning of wall, technically identical to the preceding. Quite probably the same shape. BNWII.22. Smallfragmentof rim from a plate with concave verticalrim bounded by convex moldings on the exterior;grooves markthe correspondinginternal articulation.The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish brown (10R5/6); the slip is firm,matte, darkred (10R4/8). From a plate of Conspectus form 18.2, GOUDINEAU 36a. BNWII.23. Fragment of rim from a plate with concave vertical rim. Shape, decoration, and technique as in the preceding. From a plate of Conspectusform 18.2. BNWII.24. Smallfragmentof upper rim from a plate with concave verticalrim. The upper molding is rouletted.The fabricis hard, fine, pinkish (2.5YR6/6);the slip is firm,glossy,darkred (2.5YR4/8). It belongs to a plate of Conspectusform 18.2. BNWII.25. Fragmentof rimfrom a platterwith concaveverticalrimbounded by convex moldingson the exterior;grooves markoff the correspondinginternalconvexity.The fabricis fine, hard, pinkish (5.YR6/6); the slip is firm, glossy,dark red (2.5YR4/8). From a platterof Conspectusform 18.2. BNWII.26. Fragmentof rim with beginning of wall from a cup with concave vertical rim bounded by convex rouletted moldings on the exterior and correspondinggrooves on the interior.The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (25YR6/6); the slip firm, silk-shiny,darkred (2.5YR4/8). The slope of the wall suggests a conical cup with concave, molded verticalrim of Conspectusform 22.1. A large fragment of conical wall in identical technique may belong to the same vessel. BNWII.27. Fragment of rim from a cup with concave vertical rim bounded by convex rouletted moldings on the exterior and correspondinggrooves on the interior.The fabric is fine, hard, dark pinkish (10R5/6); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (10R4/8). Probably from a conical cup with concave, molded vertical rim of Conspectusform 22.1. BNWII.28. Smallfragmentof upper wall with rim from a cup with verticalwall and plain rim. Rim markedoff by a groove and double spiraladded in applique below the lip. The wall is very thin; the fabric is fine, hard, buff (5YR6/4); the slip firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/8). From a carinated cup with vertical rim of Conspectusform 26.1. BNWII.29. Fragmentof convex wall with outturned rounded lip. On upper surface of the lip is a band of rouletting with part of an appliqued spiral, and below the lip on the exterior is a groove. The wall is very thin; the fabric is fine, hard, buff (5YR6/6); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/8). Probably from the upper part of a cup with restrictedwall of Conspectusform 32.1. BNWII.30. Smallfragmentof verticalwaRlwith plainrim.A singleand a double groovewith faintroulettingbound the rimon the exterior.The fabricis fine,hard,buff (10R6/4);the slip is firm,glossy,dark red (10R4/7), of good quality.Probablyfrom a carinatedcylindricalcup of Conspectusform 26.2. BNWII.31 (CD.982a-b). Thirteen joining fragments of wall with rim and one fragment of a low ring foot from a beaker with cylindricalwall and thickened rim. Two broad bands of rouletting at


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form50.3.1, rimsimilarto 50.4.1 but mid-body.Shapeand decorationverysimilarto Conspectus without rouletting.

Severalfeetwererecoveredin levelII of BNW;the followingthree(BNWII.32-34)belongto heavyplatters;theyarelow with angularattachmentto the body,somewhatflaringon the exterior to forma wide restingsurface: BNWII.32.Largefragmentof floorwithfoot;broadbandof roulettingon the uppersurface.The fabricis fine,hard,pinkish(2.5YR6/6);the slip is firm,glossyon the uppersurface,mattebelow, darkred (10R4/8).The bottomof the foot is mottledandpartiallyunslipped.The foot profileis B 1.1. similarto the earlybase Conspectus BNWII.33.Fragmentof floorwith foot; concentricgrooveson the uppersurface.The fabricis similarto the preceding,a little darker(10R5/6);the slip is firm,matte,darkred (10R4/7).The foot profileis similarto the base Conspectus B 1.8, associatedwith formscommonin the Augustan-Tiberianperiod. BNWII.34.Fragmentof floorwith foot; concentricgrooveson the uppersurface.The fabricis slightlygritty,veryhard,pinkish(2.5YR6/4);the slip is firm,matte,verydarkred (10R4/5);like the precedingfoot profile,it is similarto the baseConspectus B 1.8. Twofeet (BNWII.35,36) belongto plates;theyareobliqueringfeet of mediumheightchamferedon the exteriorto forma narrowrestingsurface.Thefabricis hard,fine,pinkish(2.5YR6/6); the slipis firm,silk-shiny,darkred (2.5YR4/8): BNWII.35.Smallfragmentof floorwithfoot. The foot profileis similarto the base Conspectus B 2.3, associatedwithformsof earlyAugustandate. BNWII.36.Smallfragmentof floorwith foot. The foot profileis similarto the base Conspectus B 2.4, associatedwithformsof middleAugustandate. BNWII.37.Smallfragmentof floorwith obliqueringfoot from a smallcup. Tracesof circular stampon uppersurface.Theflooris verythin;the fabricis fine,hard,pinkish(2.5YR6/6);the slip is firm,glossy,darkred (2.5YR4/8). STAMPS (PLS.

54-55)

The followinglegiblestampswerefoundin the samelevel: BNWII.38(CD.641).StampA. AVILLin lozenge-shapedframewithincircle(CVArr249-50 = OCK395)61 on thefloorof basefragment.Thelocationof theworkshopof A. Avilliusis not known; his activityhasbeen dated15 B.C.-A.D. 30 or later. BNWII.39(CD.642).StampL. IEG in rectangular frameand radialarrangement (CVArr818 = OCK967)62on fragmentof platefloor.Thefabricis fine,lightpinkish;the slipis silk-shinyon the 61

COSA,Thin WalledPottery,26.

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Ibid., 26.

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interior,matte and mottled on the exterior.The activity of the Arretine potter L. Jegidiusis dated

ca. 20-10 B.C. BNWII.40 (CD.645). StampIVN in lozenge-shapedframe (CVArr856 = OCK 1000) on a fragment of a cup base with oblique ring foot. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/5); the slip is firm, silk-shinyon the interior,matte on the exterior, dark red (10R4/7). The beginning of a gently flaring wall decorated with a band of rouletting suggests a conical cup of Conspectusform 24.1. This abbreviationof the name lunius is shared by a number of potters located in Pozzuoli and probably Gallia; the stamps as a group have been dated 10 B.C.-A.D. 10. BNWII.41 (CD.715). Stamp L.MARI/RVFIin rectangularframe (CVArr977 = OCK 1128), on the floor of a plate with concave vertical rim of Conspectusform 18.2. The fabric is hard, slightly gritty,pinkish;the slip is firm, silk-shiny.The workshop of the potter L. MariusRufus has not been located; his activityhas been tentativelydated to the Augustan period. BNWII.42 (CD. 876). Stamp SENT in rectangularframe (CVArr1729 = OCK 1854) on the floor of a fragmentaryplate of Conspectusform 12.2. A band of roulettingon the floor.The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, dark red (10R4/8). Like the stamp of fragment MS.16 it is of the workshop of C. Sentius, whose activityin Italy is dated ca. 20-1 B.C. On the bottom is a large graffitoAFRI. BNWII.43 (CD.639). Stamp TITI. THYR in rectangularframe (CVArr2063 = OCK 2247)63 on a fragmentof a cup base with oblique ring foot. The fabric is fine, hard, light pinkish (25YR7/4); the slip firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/8). Possibly from a bell-shaped cup of Conspectusform 14.1. The activityof the Arretine potter L. Titius Thyrsus is dated ca. 20 B.C.-A.D. 10. BNWII.44 (CD.643). Two stamps L.T.C.in rectangularframe and radialarrangement(CVArr2055 = OCK 223 9)64 on a fragmentof plate floor with oblique ring foot like ConspectusB 2.4. Lines with rouletting on the floor. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish yellow (5YR6/5); the slip is firm, silk-shiny, dark red (10R4/8). The activity of the Arretine potter L. Titius Copo is dated ca. 20-10 B.C. BNWII.45 (CD.7 12). Stamp A. VIBI/FIGV in rectangularframe (CVArr2324 = OCK 2398), with small palm branch along the right side,65on the floor of a cup base with oblique ringfoot, possibly a bell-shaped cup of Conspectus form 14. The location of the workshop using the signatureA.Vibius Figulus is unknown. The stamps are dated ca. 20-5 B.C. BNWII.46 (CD.644). StampDIOMED/VIBI.< in rectangularframeand radialarrangement(CVArr 2344 = OCK 2409)66 on a fragment of a platter floor encircled by broad band of rouletting. This unusual stamp of Diomedes, a slave of the Arretine potter (A.) Vibius (Scrofula),has been dated to the period 30-10 B.C. The odd sign after the nomen may be interpreted as a production control mark by the contrascriptor.

63

Ibid., 26, wrongly transcribed.

65

Ibid.,27.

64

Ibid.,26.

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Ibid.,26.


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BNWII.47 (CD.640). Stamp L.VIBI in rectangularframe (CVArr2358 = OCK 24 19)67bounded by a broad circulargroove on a base fragment of a cup base likely of Conspectusform 14. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (25YR6/4); the slip is matte, slightly mottled, red (10R5/8). The workshop of the potter L. Vibius, possibly located somewhere in central Italy,was active ca. 15 B.C.-A.D. 5. BNWII.48 (CD.736). Stamp L.VMBR/SALVIin rectangularframe within circle (CVArr2453 = OCK 2476)68on the floor of a fragmentaryplate with offset rim and curving wall of Conspectus form 5.2. A band of rouletting on the floor. The slip is dark red, matte, and mottled purple on the exterior.The location of the workshop of the potter L. Umbricius Salvus, whose activityhas been dated around 20 B.C., is unknown. BNWI.1-58

(PLS.

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Turningour attention now to the sigillatarecovered in level I of areaBNW, we can detect as a preliminaryobservationthe dwindling or disappearanceof some of the oldest forms, the prevalenceof intermediateones with a noticeableincreasein laterversionsof these, and finallythe firstappearance of half a dozen later forms, harbingersof the development of Tiberiantimes. Five fragments, including BNWI.51 (which bears a stamp), belong to platters or plates with curving wall and plain rim of Conspectusform 4:

BNWI.1. Fragment of wall with rim from a plate of Conspectusform 4.1. Techicallyvery good, the fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6), with thin wall; the slip is firm, glossy, dark red (2.2YR4/8). BNWI.2. Fragmentof rimwith beginning of floor from a platterof Conspectusform 4.4. The fabric is fine, very hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/6).

BNWI.3.Fragmentof wall with rim from a platter of Conspectusform 4.2. The fabric is very fine, soft, pinkish yellow (5YR7/4); the slip is firm, matte, dark red (2.5YR4/7).

BNWI.4. Small fragment of rim from a plate or platter of Conspectusform 4.2. Technicallyvery similarto the preceding; the slip is dark red (2.5YR4/6). The following fragments belong to platters with curving wall and offset rim of Conspectus form 5.2: BNWI.5. Two fragmentsof wall with rounded rim. The fabricis fine, soft, pinkishyellow (5YR7/4), with very thick wall; the slip is thin, matte, partlyworn, dark red (10R4/7). BNWI.6. Fragment of wall with rounded rim. The technique is similar to the preceding, but the wall is thinner,the fabric pinkish yellow (5YR6/5), and the slip dark red (2.5YR4/8). BNWI.7. Fragmentof wall with rounded rim, molded on the exterior,grooved on the interior.The fabric is fine, dark pinkish (10R5/6); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/8). 67

Ibid.,26.

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The followingfragmentsbelongto plattersandplateswith narrowhanginglip of Conspectus form 12: BNWI.8. Large fragment of wall with swelling lip profile on the interior from a platter of Conspectus form 12.1; the fabric is hard, fine, light pinkish (2.5YR7/4); the slip is firm, glossy, red (2.5YR4.5/8). BNWI.9. Small fragmentof wall swelling on the interiorwith lip and beginning of floor, probably form 14, which from a plate of Conspectusform 12.2. The greatsimilarityof the profileto GOUDINEAU form for our 2. the same classification has been connected with the early Conspectus 1, may suggest fragment. The inner curve of the wall, however, seems more like the profile of Conspectus12.2. BNWI.10. Fragment of lip and wall with tripartitemolding on the interior from a platter of Conspectusform 12.3. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/8).

BNWI.11. Fragmentof lip and wall similarto the preceding, probablyfrom a platterof Conspectus form 12.3. The technique is similarto the preceding, but the slip is glossy. BNWI.12. Largefragmentof lip and wall with tripartitemolding and multiple profiling on interior from a platter of Conspectusform 12.3. The fabric is fine, hard, dark pinkish (1OR5/6);the slip is matte, worn on lip, dark red (2.5YR4/8). BNWI.13. Fragment of lip and wall with bipartite concavity on the interior from a plate of Conspectusform 12.5. The fabric is fine, hard, dark pinkish (10R5/6); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (10R4/5). The following fragments of small cups with narrow hanging lip and sloping wall, marked on the exterior of the wall by a groove in three examples, BNWI.14, 15, 17, share some features of the bell-shaped cups of Conspectusform 14 but are closer to GOUDINEAU forms 13 and 16 in the accentuated slant of the wall. They all have a very thin wall, a fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6) fabric, and a firm, glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/8) slip:

BNWI.14.Large fragmentof wall with lip from a cup similarto Conspectusform 14.1. BNWI.15. Very small fragment of wall with lip from a cup similarto the preceding. BNWI. 16. Smallfragmentof wall with lip from a cup similarto the preceding. The externalgroove is not preserved, but a groove appears on the interior. BNWI.17. Verysmallfragmentof lip with beginning of wall, grooved on the exterior,possibly from a cup like the preceding. The following fragmentsof plattersor plates with concave verticalrim framedby convex moldings belong to Conspectusform 18.2:


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BNWI.18. Fragmentof platter or plate rim with rouletting on exterior moldings and two grooves on the interior.The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/4); the slip is firm, very glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/8). BNWI.19. Fragment of platter or plate rim with two grooves setting off the articulationon the exterior and two other grooves, on the interior.The technique is similarto the preceding, but the fabric is dark pinkish (10R5/6) and the slip dark red (10R4/7). BNWI.20. Fragment of rim from a platter with grooves framingthe lip on the interior.The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is partlyworn, dark red (2.5YR4/8). BNWI.21. Fragment of rim with beginning of floor. The almost vertical profile of the rim on the exterior and the internal articulation limited to setting off the lip by a single groove indicate a transitionalstage from Conspectusform 18 to Conspectusform 20. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip matte, flaky,dark red (2.5YR4/8). The following fragments of rims from two platters and one plate point to different stages in the evolution of Conspectusform 20: BNWI.22. Fragment of rim with beginning of floor from a platter with shallow external concavity framed by fine multiple moldings, plain on the interior. The fabric is very hard, fine, pinkish (10R6/4); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (10R4/7). Probably from a platter of Conspectusform 20.3. BNWI.23. Fragmentof rim with beginning of floor from a platter similarto the preceding in shape and technique. The more vertical external profile and the small simple moldings point to a platter of Conspectusform 20.4.3. BNWI.24. Fragment of stiff, vertical rim bounded by small simple moldings from a plate of Conspectus form 20.4.4 The wall is very thin; the fabric is hard, fine, pinkish (2.5YR6/3); the slip is firm, glossy, red (10R5/7). The following fragmentsbelong to conical cups with molded vertical rim of Conspectusform

22: BNWI.25. Fragment of rim bounded by moldings with rouletting on the exterior and grooves on the interior,from a cup of medium size of Conspectusform 22.1. The wall is very thin; the fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, matte, dark red (2.5YR4/8). BNWI.26. Fragment of rim similarto the preceding with beginning of concave wall from a small cup of Conspectusform 22.1; two grooves set off the rim on the interior.The wall is very thin; the fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (10R6/4); the slip is firm, matte, dark red (10R4/8). BNWI.27. Fragment of rim with beginning of conical wall from a small cup with concave, slightly flaring rim of Conspectusform 22.2. The rim is bounded by moldings with rouletting, and two

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grooves outline its convexity on the interior.The wall is very thin; the fabric is hard, fine, pinkish (10R6/4); the slip is firm, matte, dark red (10R4/8). BNWI.28. Fragmentof slightly concave rim bounded by moldings with rouletting on the exterior, while on the interiorthe simple convexity is set off by two grooves. Probably from a very large cup of Conspectusform 22.5. The wall is thick; the fabric is hard, fine, pinkish (2.5YR6/4); the slip is firm, dark red (2.5YR4/8). THE FOLLOWING FRAGMENTS come from cups of various forms:

BNWI.29. Fragmentof plainwall with rim set off on the exterioras a bead decoratedwith rouletting and finishedbelow by grooves, probablyfrom a cylindricalcup with verticalrim of Conspectusform 28.2. The fabric is hard, fine, dark pinkish (10R5/5); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (10R4/7). BNWI.30. Small fragment of upper wall, curving outward with rounded outturned lip and decorated with rouletting below. Two grooves on the interior.The wall is very thin; the fabric is hard, fine, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/7). From a very small cup of Conspectusform 32.1.2. BNWI.31. Smallfragmentof wall with narrowflange and lip set off by a groove on the exterior.The wall is thin; the fabric is fine, hard, darkpinkish (10R5/6); the slip is firm,matte, darkred (10R4/7). From a hemisphericalcup with a narrowflange through the outer wall of Conspectusform 34.1. BNWI.32. Large fragmentof wall with plain lip marked off by a groove on the exterior from a cup of Conspectusform 36.4. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, matte, dark red (10R4/7).

BNWI.33.Fragmentof plain wall from a small cup of ovoid shape, similarto Conspectusform 36.2 but with grooving on the lip on the interior.The wall is thin; the fabric is fine, hard, dark pinkish (lOR5/5); the slip is firm, matte, dark red (1OR4/7). BNWI.34. Small fragment of plain wall from a small cup. The wall is thin; the fabric is fine, hard, dark pinkish (10R5/4); the slip is firm, matte, dark red (1OR4/7). BNWI.35. Large fragment of wall entirely covered with rouletting on the exterior from a hemispherical cup probably of Conspectusform 38.2. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/7). BNWI.36. Fragmentof verticalwall with plain rim below which are grooves and roulettingon the exterior and correspondinggrooves on the interior.The wall is thin; the fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (10R4/8). Probably from a carinatedcup with vertical rim of Conspectusform 26. The following two small fragments belong to vessels of uncertain form, although the moderate thickness of the wall would suggest either small plates or large bowls. They share a similar


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technique:the fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/4);the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/8):

BNWI.37.Smallfragmentof slopingwallwithoffsetrim.It maycomefroma bowl of Conspectus form8.3. BNWI.38.Smallfragmentof flaringwallwitha pronouncedhanginglip. It maycomefroma bowl of Conspectusform 13.

The followingtwo fragmentsbelongto formsnot representedin Conspectus: BNWI.39.Fragmentof wall with plainrim and carinationfor the beginningof the floorfroma shallowconicalcupentirelycoveredwithroulettingon the exterior.Thefabricis fine,hard,pinkish (2.5YR6/6);the slipis firm,silk-shiny,darkred (2.5YR4/8).The closestcomparanda canbe found in thinwalledpottery,in the uncoatedbowlsof CosaformXXXVII,anexampleof which,no. 195, was found in the same level, BNWI.69

BNWI.40.Fragmentof wallfroma largebowlof conicalform,withplainrimmarkedoffby a groove on the exteriorandby a smallgrooveon the interior;thereis a groovemidwayon the exterior.The fabricis fine,hard,pinkish(2.5YR6/6);the slip is firm,matte,darkred (2.5YR4/8).The shapeis onlybroadlyrelatedto platesof Conspectus form3 andto cupsof Conspectus form8. Once again canbe foundin the thinwalledpottery,in the uncoatedtwo-handledshallowconical comparanda cupsof CosaformLVII.70 Two score ring foot fragmentsfrom platters,plates,bowls, and cups were recoveredfrom BNWI.The followingarethe most representative. In most of themthe flooris partlypreserved, but the centeris missing. Four fragmentsof floor with foot from large platters.Their technicalcharacteristicsare similar;the fabricis fine,hard,pinkish(average2.5YR6/6);the slipis firm,matte,andmottledon the undersurface, matteor a little shinierabove,partlymissinginsidethe ring,darkred (average 2.5YR4/8): BNWI.41.Foot with smallsectionof floordecoratedwith a broadbandof rouletting.The foot is profiledin roundedringson the exterior,has a flatrestingsurface,andis verticalon the interior. Thefoot profileis similarto thatof the baseConspectus B 1.2,associatedwithformsdatableto the early-middleAugustanperiod. BNWI.42.Footwithlargesectionof floordecoratedwithconcentriccircle.Thefoothasa projecting ringon the exterior,a flatrestingsurface,andis verticalinside.Similarto GOUDINEAU B-3-16. BNWI.43.Largefragmentof floordecoratedwith concentriccircles,with roundedtransitionto slopingwallandfoot.Thefootprofileis verticalon theexterior,flaringon theinterior;it corresponds to the baseConspectus B 1.7, associatedwithformsdatableAugustan-Tiberian. 69

Ibid., 279-80, 111, pls. 19, 66.

70

Ibid., 167-68.

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BNWI.44. Very small fragment of floor with foot. The foot is vertical with a flat resting surface and a groove midway on the exterior.It is similarto the base ConspectusB 1.9, also associatedwith forms datable Augustan-Tiberian. The following two ring feet belong to plates. They are high, thin, oblique with a small flat resting surface: BNWI.45. Largefragmentof foot and floor with angulartransitionto slopingwall. There is a groove at the point of transitionon the exterior and a broad band of rouletting on the floor. The fabric is fine, soft, pinkish yellow (5YR6/5); the slip is matte, mottled, dark red (2.5YR4.5/8). BNWI.46. Small fragment of foot and floor decorated with a broad band of rouletting. The followingfour ringfeet of mediumheight,oblique and chamfered,belong to platesof moderate size. They all have concentriccircleson the upper floor and sharesimilartechnicalcharacteristics. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/8): BNWI.47-50. Fragmentsof foot and floor with transition to wall (BNWI.47) and foot with very small section of floor (BNW 1.48-50). These foot profiles correspond to the base ConspectusB 2.5, associated with forms datable late Augustan-Tiberian. STAMPS (PL. 55)

The following legible stamps were found in level I of BNW: BNWI.51 (CD.633). StampANNI in rectangulardecorativeframewithin double circle (CVArr77 = OCK 116)71on the floor of a largefragmentfrom a plate of Conspectusform 4.4. Concentriccircleson the floor.The fabricis fine, hard, pinkish. The Arretinepotter Annius was active ca. 15 B.C.-A.D. 5. BNWI.52 (CD.655). StampCHRESin rectangularframe (CVArr423.1 = OCK 548) on a largefloor fragment from a plate with oblique, chamfered ring foot like ConspectusB 2.4. Concentric circles on the floor and deeply incised graffitoA on the under surface.The workshop of the potter Chres(), locatedin Pisa,was active ca. 10 B.C.-A.D. 10. BNWI.53 (CD.652). Stamp HERTO in rectangularframe (CVArr787 = OCK 932)72 on the floor of a small cup base with oblique ring foot probably of Conspectusform 22. The wall is very thin; the fabric is fine, hard, pinkish; the slip is firm. The stamp is of the Arretine potter Hertorius, active ca. 30 B.C.-A.D. 10. BNWI.54 (CD.716a-b). Stamp L.R.P.in plantapedis (CVArr1558 = OCK 1690) on the floor of a dish (a little less than half preserved) of Conspectusform 3.1. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish; the slip is firm, glossy, dark red. The stamp is of the potter L. RasiniusPisanus, whose production of undecoratedLate ItalianSigillatastartedaround the middle of the first centuryA.D. The sherd must be considered intrusive in the present context. 71 Ibid., 26.

72

Ibid., 26.

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BNWI.55 (CD.63 1). Stamp RAV in rectangularframe (CVArr 1566 = OCK 1695) on the fragmentary floor of a cup with small oblique foot. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish; the slip is firm, silk-shiny.The stamp is of the workshop of Ravius,probably of Arezzo, whose activityis suggested to date 40-20 B.C. BNWI.56 (CD.653). Stamp L.TAR in rectangularframe with concave ends (CVArr1902 = OCK on the floor of a large fragment of a cup of Conspectusform 8.1. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish; the slip is firm, silk-shiny on the interior,matte and slightly mottled on the exterior. The stamp is of the Arretine potter L. Tarquitius,active 15 B.C.-A.D. 15 and possibly later.

2040)73

BNWI.57 (CD.630). Stamp L.TITIC in rectangularframe and radial arrangement(CVArr2055 = OCK 223 9)74 on a floor of a large platter with broad, low, slightly oblique foot with flat resting surface like ConspectusB 1.5. The floor is decorated with a broad band of rouletting.The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, silk-shinyon the upper surface, mottled below and absent within the ring foot, dark red (10R4/7). The stamp, as previouslynoticed, is of the Arretine potter L.Titius Copo, active around 20-10 B.C. BNWI.58 (CD.632a-b). Stamp of palm branch in rectangularframe (CVArr2517-8 = OCK 2580) on the concave floor of a small ovoid cup with oblique ring foot, possibly a cup of Conspectusform 24. On the undersurfaceis the graffito CALIAS in an arc. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish. Such palm branch stamps, related to workshops of as yet unknown location, are dated ca. 15 B.C. provided by this examination of the sigillatafrom levels II and I of the Basilica Dump can be summarizedas follows: The beginning of the accumulationis set at the opening of the Augustan period by the appearance in level II of a fragment probably from a plate of Conspectusform 1.2, of several fragments from plates of Conspectusforms 4, 5, 10, 11, and of cups of form 8, corresponding to the cultural environment of the Rhineland camps of Dangstetten and Oberaden. The close of the accumulation at the very end of the Augustan period or shortly thereafteris established by the appearance in level I of a small number of fragments from forms belonging to the final years of the Haltern camp and later:plates of Conspectusform 20.3-4 and cups of Conspectusforms 28, 34, 36.2-4, 38. While Conspectusforms 1, 8, 10, 11 have alreadydisappearedin level I, forms 4 and 5 are modestly increasing.The most enduring and plentiful forms, however, are plates of Conspectusforms 12 and 18.2 and cups of form 14, which, occurringin both levels, are the commonest vessels in the middle and late Augustan periods at Cosa. Of the nineteen stamps found in the two levels only one (BNWI.54), probably out of context, is in planta pedis; the others confirm the dating provided by the forms. Eight of the potters who imprintedtheir names are surelyArretine;two more are probablyArretine;the location of the others remainsunknown. The presence of the last, nevertheless,is significant;it testifies to the growth and expansion of sigillataproduction in Italy,outside the Arretinearea, during the Augustan period. The technical characteristicsof the sigillataof the Augustanperiod cannotbe easilygeneralized. While the fabric has alreadyreached a satisfactorylevel of stability,with a generaltendency toward a refinedhard texture, variationsin the qualityand color of the slip are frequent. From comparison THE INFORMATION

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Ibid.,26.

74

Ibid.,26.

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of the fragmentsbelongingto the earliestandlatestforms,it is possible,however,to detectcertain trends.The colorof the slip,whichin the formsof the earlyAugustanperiodis mostlya definite red (1OR)witha valueof 4 anda chromaof 7 or 8, tendsto movelatertowarda yellow-red(2.5YR) witha valueof 4 anda chromaof 8, the famous"coral"colorof classicalArretine.The dull,worn, or spottedslip,appearingespeciallyon the exteriorof the vesselsandunslippedareasunderlarge feet, foundon earlyforms,is graduallyreplacedby a consistent,uniform,silk-shinyto glossyslip thatwill becomethe trademarkof Tiberiantimes.

3 4 TheMaturityandLaterYears TheJulio-Claudian Period

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stratifiedlayers of Room 25, situated at the north corner of Atrium Building I, provided valuable material for defining the latest phase in the typology of thin walled ware, a class of pottery earlierunclassified.1Study of the Italiansigillatafrom the same levels, however,has proved to be much less satisfactory.2Nevertheless, the intrinsic interest of some of the finds suggests the usefulness of a rapid survey of this area. In its originalplan Room 25 was a taberna,which, along with another to the west of it, Rooms 24/26, was added to the northeastsection of AtriumBuildingI within twentyyearsafterits construction, occupying an empty plot at the crossing of Street 7 with Street 0.3 The interpretationof the stratigraphyin Room 25 was complicatedby the fact that partitionshad been erectedinside the room at differenttimes. Consequently,the excavatedmaterialwas divided into four groups corresponding to areasof provenience, referredto as A, B, C, and D. Subsequent examinationproved that in the originalplan the room was divided into two majorareasby a zigzag wall that created two spaces of unequallengthbehind a largeL-shapedroom,openingon Street0. The smallerof the two backspaces, Room25 B, whichwas unpaved,containeda rock-cutpit of roughlyrectangularshape (1.78/1.56),0.90 m deep, defined in the excavationas Room 25 B IV Pit, the lowest level in this area.The largerspace, Room 25 A, was paved with lozenge-shapedbricks of terracotta.Four levels, correspondingto those in 25 B, were identifiedhere also, and the entire areathen, from a stratigraphicpoint of view,must be considereda unit:Room 25 A/B. The L-shapedareain front had a signinum floor and communicated with space 25 A through a large door with a step, in the cutback of the partition.Since this areawas a single room in the originalplan, the two later sections C and D eventuallybecame Room 25 C/D. In the excavation,as it appearsfrom the 1953 journal,confirmedby a later examinationof the finds, levels III and II of 25 C/D correspondrespectivelyto levels IV and III of 25 A/B. Taberna25 probably functioned as a butcher shop, with an area out of sight in the back for slaughteringthe animalsand preparingthe meat and a largerone in front for selling the meat. The great quantity of fragments of thin walled pottery found in Room 25, the majoritydatable from the late Tiberianperiod to the end of production, and the comparativelymore modest number of sigillatafragments,about fiftyin all, suggest the prevalentuse of drinkingvessels by the shop owner and his assistantsin their strenuous activity. 1 COSA, Thin WalledPottery,231-33.

3 For the plan of the room, see CosAIII, 105, fig. 38; for an

2 On

account of the excavation, see COsA,Thin WalledPottery, 231.

account of its location, Room 25 was not buried under the debris of the northwest wall of the Basilicawhen it collapsed at the beginning of the reign of Claudius.

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Level IV of 25 A/B contained a small quantityof thin walled fragmentsof great chronological range, from as early as the late republican period down to the reign of Tiberius. An even greater discrepancy appearsin the date of the coins found in this level: from republican times to the third quarterof the second century A.D.4 A dozen fragments of sigillatawere found in level IV of section 25 A; the identifiable forms are the following: AB25.1. Small fragment of upper wall with lip from a carinated cylindrical cup with flat rim of Conspectusform 27.1. The wall is very thin; the fabric is fine, hard, light red (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (10R4/8). AB25.2-6. Five fragmentsof rims, four with the beginning of the walls, of five hemisphericalcups with vertical rim and pronounced exterior flange of Conspectusform 34.1. They all have a groove markingoff the lip; two have a six-petaled rosette applique and one a small head similarto Bolsena form C-2A-51.5 The fabric is slightly gritty,very hard, from dark red (2.5YR5/6) to red (10R4/6); the slip is thin, firm, matte, dark red (2.5YR4/6; 1OR4/6). Three fragmentsin good earliertechnique may belong to one or more decorated vessels. One is a fragment of a chalice foot similarto ConspectusR 2.3. Among half a dozen fragmentsof sigillata,from the contemporarylevel III of section 25 C in the front room, the following forms can be identified: AB25.7. Very small fragment of wall with lip, probably from a carinated cylindrical cup of Conspectusform 26.2. A groove sets off the lip, and grooves decorate mid-body. The wall is very thin; the fabric is slightly gritty,very hard, pinkish red (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/8).

AB25.8.Small fragment of wall with lip from a hemisphericalcup of Conspectusform 36.3. Small grooves set off the lip, and rouletting decorates the entire outer surface of the wall. The wall is thin; the fabric is slightly gritty,very hard, red (10R5/8); the slip is thin, very firm, matte, dark red (2.5YR4/8).

AB25.9.Fragmentof sloping wall with bead-rim from a dish of Conspectusform 3.1. The fabric is slightly gritty,very hard, red (10R5/6); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/8). STAMP

AB25.10 (CF.2199). An almost entirely preserved bell-shaped cup with vertical rim of Conspectus form 17. Convex moldings bound the rim and decorate the foot on the exterior, grooves on the interior. On the floor is the stamp [C]AMVR in a round-ended frame inscribed within a circle 4In section 25 B IV the following coins were found: CF.624, COSA,Coins, no. 218, an as dated to A.D. 161-176; CE626,

COsA,Coins, no. 119, a Roman republican as of uncertain date; CF.1802, CosA,Coins, no. 380, an unclassified Greek or Roman republican coin; CE1809, CosA,Coins, no. 225,

an as of Lucilla dated to A.D. 164. In section 25 A IV was found CE 1806, CosA,Coins,no. 155, an as of Tiberiusdated to A.D. 15-37. 5 GOUDINEAU, 225, 226.

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(CVArr1042 = OCK 1198). Though the reading of an initial C remainsunverified,the stamp may be attributedto the potter C. Murrius,whose activityis approximatelydated to A.D. 1-20 and after. This stamp is very frequent at Cosa. As A WHOLE the sigillatafrom 25 A IV and 25 C III can be dated to the Tiberianperiod in harmony with the latest thin walled pottery from the same levels, though some forms, such as Conspectus forms 27 and 34 respectively,may last into Neronian and Flavian times. The appearance of the sporadic Conspectusform 17 (AB25.10)in this context seems to confirm its survivalinto the Tibernanperiod. Three fragmentsof sigillatawere recovered from level III of section 25 A; the following forms can be identified: AB25.11. Large fragment of wall with rim from a platter with plain rim and curving wall of Conspectusform 4.6. The fabric is fine, very hard, pinkish red (2.5YR6/6); the slip is thin, flaky,dark red (2.5YR4/6) mottled brownish red in spots (2.5YR4/3). AB25.12. Fragment of tall ring foot similar to ConspectusB 4.7, a type connected with cups of Conspectusforms 22-25. The fabric is fine, soft, reddish yellow (5YR6/6); the slip is thin, slightly flaky,red (2.5YR5/8). Fromthe contemporarylevelIII of the adjacentsection25 B comes a smallerfoot: AB25.13. Two non-joiningfragmentsfrom a tall ringfoot with beginningof wall similarto Conspectus B 3.14, possibly associatedwith Conspectusforms 31-33. Technicallyvery similarto the preceding. The finding of two late coins in level III of 25 A/B, a dupondiusof Hadrian in 25 A,6 and an Antoninianus of Claudius Gothicus in 25 B,7confirmsthe confused characterof this level, already apparentin the sigillata.This characterbecomes even strongerin level II, warningus to limit inquiry to the lower strataof the excavation. The sigillata recovered in section 25B IV Pit was eventually combined, in the process of cataloguing, with some fragments from the upper levels III and II from the same section. An early-middle Augustan date for the entire group is suggested, however, by the identifiable forms and the good technical qualityof all the fragments:a fine, hard, reddish yellow (5YR6/6) or yellowish red (2.5YR6/6) fabric and a basically firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/8) slip, worn in some fragments.It seems, therefore, logical to postulate a single provenience for this coherent group of pottery.The identifiable forms are:

AB25.14.Fragment of rim from a plate with broad, articulated rim, very similar to Conspectus form 10.3.

AB25.15.Fragmentof wall with narrowhanging lip from a plate of Conspectusform 12.1. AB25.16. Large fragmentof wall with lip from a cup with pronounced hanging lip and flaringwall of Conspectusform 13.2. 6

CF.216, COSA, Coins, no. 195, dated to A.D. 118.

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CE620, COSA, Coins, no. 266, dated A.D. 270.


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AB25.17. Fragment of wall with rim from a bell-shaped cup with narrow hanging lip and groove at mid-body of Conspectusform 14.1. AB25.18. Large fragmentof lower wall with beginning of foot from a carinatedcup with sloping wall of the rareConspectusform 27.3. The example cited here bearsthe signatureof Firmus,a maker of conical cups, approximatelydated 10 B.C.and after (CVArr695 = OCK 835). EASTERN SIGILLATAA

(ESA)

AND IMITATIONS

The sigillata just examined may represent the latest period of accumulationin 25 B IV Pit. To an earlier stage probably belong several fragments of ESA, including a few that may be considered local imitations. Regrettably,in the cataloguingof this materialtoo some confusion occurred, and the fragmentswere assigned once again to 25 B IV Pit and to levels III and II of the same section 25 B. In this instance, however, we may assume that the fragmentsof ESA belong to level 25 B IV Pit and have preceded the accumulationof sigillata.The ESA fragmentsare the following: AB25.19. Largefragmentof wall with gently curved rim from a plate of HAYESform 4 A,8TELANAFA 13c.9The fabric is very fine, soft, pinkish yellow (7.5YR8/3); the slip is thin, a little flaky,matte, red (10R5/8) mottled darkerred (10R4/8). AB25.20. Two very large non-joining fragmentsof floor and a fragmentof rim from a platter with curved rim of HAYESform 3,10 TEL ANAFA 13.11The fabric is very fine, soft yellowish (7.5YR7/4); the slip is firm, matte, red (1OR5/6). AB25.21. Fragmentof curved rim from a plate or platter of form and fabriclike the preceding. Slip firm, silk-shinyon the exterior,matte on the interior,red (1OR4/7). AB25.22. Small fragment of rim from a plate with curved rim of form like the preceding. The fabric is very fine, soft, pinkish yellow (7.5YR8/3); the slip is thin, worn in spots, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/5). Because of their inferior quality the two following specimens may be considered local imitations of ESA: AB25.23. Fragmentof wall with rounded lip from a dish with bead-rim and sloping wall. The rim is set off by grooves on the exterior and by a single groove on the interior.The fabric is fine, soft, pinkish yellow (7.5YR7/4); the slip is thin, very flaky,with some sheen, dark red (2.5YR4/8). AB25.24. Fragmentof wall with rim from a platter with plain rim and sloping wall. Technicalfeatures identical with the preceding, probably from the same workshop. The discovery of thin walled fragmentsdatable to late republicantimes in level IV of the area 25 A/B gives chronological support to the presence of Eastern SigillataA and its imitationsin level 8

HAYES,

15-16, pl. I, nos. 9-10.

9 TELANAFA,288-95.

10

HAYES,

14-15, pl. I, nos. 7-8.

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IV Pit of 25 A. Theassociationof thelatterwitha coherentgroupof sigillatadatableto theearlyand middleAugustanperiodin the restrictedareaof a pit is significant: it is furtherproofof a relation betweenthesetwo typesof ceramicin the crucialperiodof the formationof redItaliansigillata.

AtriumBuildingI, Room22, LevelII: Tiberian-Early ClaudianPeriod (AB2211.1-89, pls. 26-34, mapsIV,V) A shopor storehouse,Room22, wasbuiltin the remaining vacantareaof the plot southof Taberna 25 a shorttime later.12The southeastwall of 25 becamethe partitionbetweenthe two. The new, roughlyrectangular roomwasflooredwithrammedearthandaccessiblefromthe openspaceto the to area16.Inthereoccupation southeast,which,afterthewallingof theremaining plot,corresponded of the Forumandtransformation of AtriumBuildingI intoa house,Room22 becamea taberna;the connectionwith 16, now usedfor storage,wasblockedanda newdooropenedon Street7.13 A trench,openedalongthe southwestwallof the room,revealedthe construction floorandthe crestsof the bedrockon whichthe roomfloorwaslaid directly.Thislayer,onlya few centimeters deep andalmostentirelydevoidof artifacts,is levelIII of the excavation.LevelII abovethe floor represents,withthe profusionof materialfoundhere,the periodof full activityof the shopduring the reignsof Tiberiusand Caligulaandthe firstyearsof Claudius.14 At the beginningof the fifth decadeof the firstcenturyA.D., aswe haveseen (abovep. 23), the northwestwallof the Basilicafell, sealingoff this layerandburyingunderits limestoneblocksandthe terracottatilesfromthe roof of the roomthe entirecontentsof the shop:ceramicsof manykinds,lamps,glass,andhardware. Twoassesof the DivusAugustusPaterseriesfoundin the context,CE.1201,datedto A.D. 15-16,15 and CE.1050,datedto A.D. 34-37,16 both in a conditionsuggestinga circulationno longerthana decade,seemto definethe durationof levelII andconfirmthe predominantly Tiberiancharacterof the material.Thirty-fourstampsin plantapedisof the forty-onefoundin levelII (a moreaccurate examinationhasmodifieda previouscount)makethis characterparticularly clear. Withina decadethereafterthe extantruinsof the Basilicawere demolishedand an Odeum builtin its place.17 LevelI of Room22 representsin partthe accumulation thattookplaceafterthese eventsbut alsoincludesrandommaterialof earlierdateleft in the confusionafterthe catastrophe. I havedecidedto includein my surveyof the sigillatafromRoom22 the materialfromlevelI, in spite of its surfacecontext,in an attemptto gainsomeinsightinto the latestphasein the history of sigillataat Cosa. Level II of Room22 has playeda fundamentalrole in the classificationof the thin walled potteryof Tiberian-early Claudiandate:the largestamountsof "unglazed"and "metallicglaze" warelaterthanthe Augustanperiodandhalf of all the "orangeglaze"warefound at Cosacame fromthislevel.18Althoughthe datingof this materialis corroborated by outsideevidence,I have preferredto discountthe supportof the thin walledpotteryin the assessmentof the sigillatato avoidthe possiblecriticismof aninbredchronology. It hasseemedadvisable,however,to takeinto 12 COSA III, 135-37.

16Ibid., no. 153.

13 Ibid., 240.

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18 COSA, Thin WalledPottery, 153, 173, 190.

COSA,Thin WalledPottery,27-28.

15 COSA, Coins, no. 148.

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consideration from level II of Room 22 two vases of "Aco Ware" type: a shallow bowl signed by the local potter Cusonius19and a beaker probably from the same workshop.20The activity of this potter in the Augustan period and a few sigillatastamps of similardate, also found in level II, seem to indicate that a very small amount of earliermaterialmay have been present in the shop. The one hundred seventy identifiablelamps unearthed in level II of Room 22 have been catalogued according to nine different types:21 * Thirty lamps with voluted triangularnozzle;22 * Forty-six lamps with voluted round nozzle;23 * Forty-one lamps with voluted round nozzle and heat shield.24 Voluted nozzle lamps are almost certainlyto be dated to the first century A.D. * Twenty-threelamps with short rounded nozzle,25dated mainly to the second half of the first century A.D. * Five lamps with pseudo-double-ended volutes,26dated from about the middle years of the first century to the earlieryears of the second century A.D. * Four lug-handled lamps with channel extending from discus to wick-hole,27dated late Claudian to Trajanic. * One lamp may be assigned, for lack of a more specific classification,to BAILEYtype C.28 Once again the chronological evidence offered by the lamps seems too broad to challenge the dating of the deposit to the Tiberian-earlyClaudianperiod. A preliminarysurveyof the sigillatafound in level II of Room 22 revealsthe high technical excellence achieved in the preparationof the clay and in the firingprocess and a tendency toward the utilizationof basic forms in large quantities.The long struggletoward the perfection of a luminous, uniform red slip, alreadyoccasionallysuccessful in the matureAugustanperiod, is now completely won. Gone is the last trace of discrepancybetween the even quality of the inner surface of a vessel and the sometimes flakyor mottled appearanceof the exterior.Less frequent also is the occurrence of an unslipped area inside the foot of a large platter.The fabric is fine and generallyconsistent. From the staggering quantity of sherds piled under the collapsed roof, it emerged that the owner of the taberna favored, among the types of plates then current, those of Conspectusform 20, which had alreadymade a timid appearancein level I of the BasilicaDump. He also fancied a ubiquitous type of dish, form 3, which could be modified into many subforms. Less popular, but still in demand, were the long-lived plates of form 4 appearinghere in their latest subforms 6 and 7. Notwithstandingthe considerablechoice of cups availablein the market,and indeed represented in his inventory,the shopkeeper seems to have fixed his interest especially on those of Conspectus form 37 and, to a lesser extent, forms 33 and 27. Two types of plate, however, may be considered survivalsfrom the preceding period:

19COSA, Aco, 278, no. 18.

24 LOESCHCKE III; BRONEER

20 Ibid., 280, no. 30.

25 LOESCHCKE VIII; BRONEER

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26 LOESCHCKE V;

XXI; BAILEYD. XXV; BAILEYO/P.

CosA, Lamps, 14-16. For a correct dating of stamp CE.1796, signed by M. Perennius Crescens, see COSA,Thin WalledPottery,27-28.

22

LOESCHCKE I; BRONEER XXII; BAILEYA.

23 LOESCHCKE IV; BRONEER

XXXIII; BAILEYB.

BRONEER XXIV; BAILEYCV.

27 LOESCHCKE

V; BAILEYG.

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AB2211.1. Fragment of rim with lip and beginning of floor from a plate with pronounced vertical hanging lip and groove on the interior of Conspectusform 11.1.3, datable mid-Augustan. AB22II.2. Small fragment of rim with beginning of floor, from a plate with concave vertical rim divided in half by a groove on the interior,of Conspectusform 18.2. The commonest plate is, as we have said, the platter or plate with smooth or finely molded vertical rim of Conspectusform 20, a simplifiedform, omitting the internalmoldings, of Conspectus form 18 of Augustan times. Foot profiles are in general higher and more delicate. The majorityof these plates at Cosa belong to the subform 20.4, which is characterizedby simple convex moldings forming the rim and often by applied motifs on the outside. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,darkred (from2.5YR 4/8 to 2.5YR7/8). The following plates and fragmentsof Conspectusform 20.4 have been identified: AB22II.3 (CE.1774; pl. 56). Almost complete plate with a small dolphin applied on the rim and two sets of concentric circles on floor. At center, stamp in planta pedis Q.SVLP (CVArr1872 = OCK 2009). It is of the potter Q. Sulp(icius), active around A.D. 15, whose workshop has not been located. AB221I.4 (CE.1776;pl. 56). Almost complete platewith partof a double spiralon the rim, concentric circles and band of rouletting on floor. At center, stamp in planta pedis, possibly SERT or SERTO (CVArrl776 = OCK 1909), of the Arretine potter Sertorius, active during approximatelythe first thirty years of the first century A.D. AB22II.5. Fragmentof rim with part of floor and foot. AB221I.6. Fragmentof rim with beginning of floor. Double spiral applied on rim. AB22II.7. Two non-joining fragmentsof a shallow plate. To Conspectusform 20.3, characterizedby double convex moldingsframingthe rim and interior groove at the lip, may be assigned: AB2211.8 (CE.1773; pl. 56). Large portion of rim and floor with high delicate foot from a platter. Applied lion's head on outer face of rim and grooves on the interior. AB2211.9 (CE.1775). Floor with foot and section of rim from a plate. Double spiralapplied to wall; bipartite division inside and circle on floor. Illegible stamp in planta pedis inscribed within circle at center. AB22II.10. Fragmentof rim with portion of floor from a plate. AB2211.11. Small fragmentof rim with beginning of floor. AB22II.12. Fragment of rim probably from a plate or platter of Conspectusform 20.3. Bipartite division inside.

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Two examples, AB22II.13 and 14, belong to plates of Conspectusform 19.2, with concave vertical rim and quarter-roundmolding between the rim and floor,datableAugustan-Tiberian.The other fragmentsbelong to plates of the long-livedConspectusform 21, a successorof form 19 characterized by a vertical rim. They present the same technical characteristicsas the preceding form. AB2211.13 (CE.1777). About half plus several non-joining fragmentsof a plate. Double spiral applied to rim on the exterior, grooves on the interior,and band of rouletting on floor. AB22II.14. Fragmentof rim with beginning of floor of a plate. The following fragmentsbelong to plates of Conspectusform 21.3, dated like the corresponding form 20.3 to approximatelythe first thirty years of the first century A.D.: AB22II.15 (CE.1778;pl. 56). About one-quarterpreserved.Femaletheatricalmaskunderlong double spiral applied on wall, band of rouletting on floor. At center stamp in planta pedis within a circle: C.VIBI (CVArr2295 = OCK 2373), of the Arretinepotter C. Vibienus, active ca. A.D. 1-40. AB2211.16. Small fragmentof rim with quarter-roundmolding. Star applied to wall. AB2211.17. Large fragment of rim with beginning of floor. Star under double spiral applied to wall. AB22II.18. Fragment of smooth rim with beginning of floor. The following fragment comes from a plate of Conspectusform 21.4: AB2211.19. Fragmentof rim with triple moldings on the outer face. The following plates with plain rim and curvingwall can best be classified as Conspectusform 4.6, a late subform of the type dated Tiberian-Claudian,though no example is an exact copy of the form. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/8): AB22II.20 (CE.1779; pl. 56). Verysmall plate almost complete. Severalconcentric circles on floor. At center stamp in plantapedis CAMVRI(CVArr397 = OCK 514), of the Arretinepotter Camurius, whose activitybegan ca. A.D. 30. AB2211.21 (CE.1780; pl. 56). About half plus three non-joining fragmentsof a plate. Band of rouletting between concentric circles on floor. At center stamp in planta pedis possibly SERT (CVArr 1776 = OCK 1909), the Arretine potter Sertorius, active, as we have seen, in the first thirty years of the first century A.D. AB221I.22 (CE.1781; pl. 56). Small plate almost complete. Double spiral applied to wall and concentric circles on floor. At center stamp in planta pedis CAMVRI (CVArr397 = OCK 514). AB22II.23 (CE.1782; pl. 56). Almost complete plate. Double spiral applied to wall and concentric


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circles on floor. At center stamp in planta pedis possibly VMB (CVArr2385 = OCK 2441), of the probably Arretine potter Umbricius, active ca. A.D. 10-50. AB22II.24. Small fragmentof rim. The following plate may be classified as Conspectusform 4.7: AB22II.25 (CE.1783; pI. 56). Plate with five deep grooves producing an effect of ribbing on outer face of rim and applied dolphin. At center stamp in planta pedis C.MVRRI(CVArr1044 = OCK 1203) of the Arretine potter C. Murrius,active during the first thirty years of the first century A.D. and possibly later. The dish with sloping wall and bead-rim, Conspectusform 3, is one of the latest vessels of Italian sigillatato be found at Cosa, hardlysurprisinggiven the longevity of the type: apparentlyfrom a beginning between the end of the first quarterand the middle of the first century A.D. to an end sometime in the second century A.D. About fifteen examples of the form, mostly fragmentsof wall with rim, were found in level II of Room 22. Only one example, AB22II.26 (CE.1794), provides the complete profile of the form, which can be classified,on the basis of its rounded wall and outturned lip with groove on inner face, as Conspectussubform 3.1. All the other fragmentssuggest a greater variety of shape and more freedom in detail than might be expected from the recorded subforms of Conspectus.In the large majorityof examples the fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, from silk-shinyto glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/8): AB221I.26 (CE.1794; pl. 56). About two-thirds of a small dish on high, delicate ring foot. A relief line separates the floor from the wall on the interior. On floor a circle, at center stamp in planta pedis L.VET (CVArr2277 = OCK 2357). The location of the workshop of the potter L. Vet(tius), active ca. A.D. 15 and later,is unknown. AB2211.27.Verylargefragmentof wall with outturnedlip and beginning of curvedfloor.Groove on inner face of lip and at beginning of curve on exterior.Probably to be classified as subform 3.1. AB22II.28. Fragment of rounded wall with bead-rim. Grooves on inner face of lip and below it. The thick wall suggests a large, heavy dish. Probably to be classified as subform 3.1. AB22II.29. Fragment of rounded wall with bead-rim and beginning of curved floor from a dish similarto the preceding but smaller. AB22II.30. Largefragmentof straightslopingwall, with bead-rim,slightlyangulartransitionto floor, and external groove, from a shallow dish not representedin Conspectusbut similarto form 3.2. AB2211.31. Fragment of wall with rim from a dish similarto the preceding. Groove on outer and inner face of rim. The slip is matte. AB22II.32. Largefragmentof slightlyrounded wall with barelyarticulatedrim from a shallow dish. Grooves on inner face of rim. It may be classified as subform 3.3.

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AB2 1I.33. Large fragment of rather straight sloping wall with unarticulatedlip from a deep dish of subform 3.3. The fabric is softer than usual and the slip thin and matte. AB221I.34. Fragmentof straightsloping wall with unarticulatedlip and angulartransitionto floor from a shallow dish of subform 3.3. Technicalcharacteristicslike the preceding. The following conical cups, with vertical rim framed by simple convex moldings, belong to Conspectusform 23.2. AB22II.35 and 36 share the same technical features:fine, very hard fabric with very thin wall and pinkish (2.5YR6/4), firm, silk-shiny,dark red slip (2.5YR4/7). The slip of AB22II.37 is glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/8): AB22II.35 (CE.1747; pl. 56). Small cup about three-quarterspreserved. Double spiral on wall, on center of floor stamp in planta pedis CMVR (CVArr1042 = OCK 1198). The location of the workshop of the potter C. Mur( ), active during the first twenty years of the first century A.D. and possibly later,is unknown. AB2211.36 (CE.1784a-b; pl. 56). Small cup almost complete. Two double spiralson rim;on center of floor stamp in planta pedis ATEI (CVArr144 = OCK 268). All the stamps in plantapedis of the potter Ateius are now assigned by P. Kenrick to the period of his activity in Pisa and dated approximately to the first quarterof the first century A.D. AB22II.37 (CE.1785; pl. 56). Small cup almost complete. On center of floor an indecipherable rounded-ended rectangularstamp. Among the cups found in level II of Room 22 the carinatedcylindricalcup with flat rim, Conspectusform 27, proved to be one of the most numerous. These seem to represent an intermediate stage between subform 27. 1, with which they share the smooth wall, and subform27.2, with which they share a lower body blending smoothly with the floor. The stamp on the center of the floor is surrounded by a circle. They all present the same technical features: a fabric fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6) and a slip firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/8): AB22II.38 (CE.1762A;pl. 57). About one-third of cup preserved.Tip of rim missing. On center of floor stamp in planta pedis M.POBL (CVArr1347 = OCK 1491). The workshop of the potter M. Pobl ( ), active after ca. A.D. 15, has been assigned to central Italy. AB221I.39 (CE.1762B; pl. 57). Lower body and four non-joining fragments of wall with rim of an identical cup. On center of floor stamp in planta pedis M POBL (CVArr 1347 = OCK 1491). AB221I.40 (CE.1764; pl. 57). About one-third of a similar cup. On center of floor stamp in round-ended rectangularframe EVT (CVArr656-57 = OCK 793-94). The workshop using the signature Eut( ) has been located in central Italy and its activity dated sometime after the beginning of the first century A.D. AB221I.41 (CE.1763). Cup similarto the preceding. On floor the same stamp,EVT in round-ended rectangularframe, appears.


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ofcuppreserved. Oncenteroffloorstampinplanta AB22II.42(CE.1767;pl.57). Aboutone-fourth pedis M.POBL (CVArr1347 = OCK 1491). The following lower body probably comes from a cup of the same form: AB221I.43 (CE.1760; pl. 57). Base and foot of cup preservedup to carination.On center of floor an

unclear stampinplantapedis,possiblyCAN (CVArr 258= OCK402).Theworkshop ofthepotter C.Avillius datedto ca.A.D.30-70. Nym() hasbeenlocatedin centralItalyanditsactivity Another similar to thepreceding butbelonging to asomewhat fragment largerandheavier cup is probablyto be connectedwith Conspectus form26, datedto the firsthalfof the firstcenturyA.D.

Thestampin a round-ended framealsoindicates anearlydate: rectangular AB221I.44 (CE.1749; pI.57).Aboutone-third oflowerportionof cupupto carination. Oncenter = of floorstampin round-ended frameCOMA(CVArr rectangular 463 OCK601).Theworkshop of thepotterComa(zon) hasbeenlocatedin Pozzuolianditsactivity datedto ca.A.D. 1-20. The uncommoncylindricalcup with smallringfoot of Conspectus form28, datedto the first

halfof thefirstcentury inlevelIIofRoom22byonesureexampleandpossibly A.D.,is represented threemorefragments: AB22II.45 (CE.1748;pl.57).Abouthalfoffloorandsmallportionofwallwithrimfromaverysmall cupof Conspectus form28.1.Thefabricis fine,hardwithverythinwall,pinkish(2.5YR6/6); the slipis firm,silk-shiny, darkred(2.5YR4/8). Therimis smooth.Oncenterof floorstampinplanta in circleCEL(OCK530).Thestampis of theworkshop pedisinscribed of unknown locationof a potterCel(), activeafterca.A.D. 15. AB2211.46. Smallfragment of wallwithsmoothrimandbeginning of floor,technically similarto thepreceding. of a somewhat AB22II.47. Fragment thickerwallwithrimmarked bysmallgrooveontheexterior. Possiblyfroma cupof thesameform. The followingarecupswith restrictedwall andvariouslyarticulatedrimof Conspectus form

32,datedfromearlyTiberian to themiddleof thecentury. Theysharethesametechnical features, a fabricthatis fine,hardwiththinwall,pinkish(2.5YR6/6); a slip,firm,silk-shiny in AB221I.49 and50,glossyin48, darkred(2.5YR6/8): AB2211.48 (CE.1787; pl. 57).Almostcompletecupof Conspectus form32.3,characterized by a horizontal lipoffsetatanangle.Twodoublespiralsareappliedto thegroovedhorizontal lip.On centeroffloor,surrounded bycircle,stampinplanta pedisVMBR(CVArr 2385= OCK2441.48-53). ThestampUmbricius is of a workshop probably locatedin Arezzoandactivefora longperiod, fromca. 10 B.C. to A.D. 50 andlater.

AB2211.49 (CE.1786; pl.57).Threenon-joining fragments, aboutone-quarter preserved of a very small cup of Conspectus form 32.5, characterized by a less pronouncedrestrictionof the wall,

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slightlyoffsetlip, andhighfoot. Veryfine roulettingon uppersectionof body;on centerof floor framedby a circlestampin plantapedis/VI (CVArr2282 = OCK2362?).This stampis difficult to decipher;it maybe thatof a C. Vi( ), a potterwhoseworkshophasnot beenlocatedandwhose activityis datedpost-Augustan. of a cupverysimilarto the precedingbut a AB22II.50(CE.1786bis;pl. 57). Aboutthree-quarters littlelarger.On centerof floorframedby a circlestamplike the preceding. form Sixexamplesof thehemispherical cupwitha narrowflangelow on thewall,of Conspectus 33, arerecordedin levelII of Room22. Onlyone findsanexactparallelamongthe subformsof this to Conspectus form33.2.1.In alltheotherexamplesbutonethe type,AB22II.51,whichcorresponds lip is not set off by a groovebut by a plainbandthatseparatesit fromthe roulettingdecoratingthe wall.In AB22II.52the roulettingalsocoversthe lip. Thefabricis fine,hardwiththinwall,varying the slipis firm,glossyon AB2211.51, frompinkish(2.5YR6/6)to pinkishyellow(5YR7/4-5YR6/6); silk-shinyon AB22II.52,closeto matteon the others,darkredon all (2.5YR4/8): AB2211.51(CE.1766;pl. 57). Half a dozennon-joiningfragments,abouttwo-thirdspreservedof form33.2.1.Circleon floor,at centerfragmentary a cup like Conspectus stampin plantapedis[L.] FASTI(CVArr673 = OCK809). It is of the potterL. Fastidienus,whoseworkshophasnot been locatedandwhoseactivityis datedafterca. A.D. 15. AB221I.52(CE.1789;pl. 57). About one-thirdplus two smallnon-joiningfragmentsof a small shallowcup similarto Conspectus form33.3. Circleon floor,at centerverysmallstampin planta pedis A( ) (OCK2.5). It is a veryunusualstampof an unknownpotter,datableapproximately post-Augustan. AB221I.53(CE.1790B;pl. 57). Abouthalfplustwo smallnon-joiningfragmentsof a cup of transitionalshapebetweenConspectus forms33.2 and33.3.Veryfineroulettingon wall,two concentric circleson floor,withat centeranepigraphic stampof fiveparallelverticallinesin anellipticalframe (OCK2550.10).This stampof a workshopof unknownlocationis datedafterapproximately the beginningof the firstcenturyA.D. AB221I.54(CE.1790A;pl. 57). Aboutone-fourthof a cupverysimilarto the precedingbut a little smaller.On centerof floorthe samestampas the preceding. AB22II.55.A scoreof non-joining fragments(basemissing),representing abouthalfof a cupsimilar to the preceding.Circleon floor. AB22II.56.Largefragmentof wallwithlip, carination,andbeginningof floorof a cup similarto the precedingbut with coarserroulettingof the wall.Faintcircleon floor. Twomorearehemispherical cupswithshortverticalrimandpronouncedflangemidwaydown the wallof Conspectus form34, a laterdevelopmentof form33, datedlateTiberianto Flavian: AB2211.57(CE.1756;pl. 57). Fournon-joiningfragmentspreservingabouthalf of a verysmall shallow cup of Conspectusform 34.2. The fabric is fine, very hard with very thin wall, pinkish


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(2.5YR6/4); the slip is firm, silk-shiny, dark red (2.5YR4/6). Double spiral applied to rim. On center of floor framed by circle stamp in planta pedis of which only the last two letters can be deciphered: [ ]ER. AB2211.58 (CE.1788; pl. 58). About half plus an additionalnon-joiningfragmentof a small cup of Conspectusform 34.1.The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5 YR6/6); the slip is firm, glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/8). Two double spirals are applied to the rim. On center of floor framed by circle stamp in planta pedis but difficult to read. Verypopular in the Cosa households of these times seems to have been the hemisphericalcup with variouslyarticulatedrim of Conspectusform 37, dated Tiberianto midcentury.The Cosa cups, with their everted, horizontal lips, must be classified as examples of form 37.1. They all share the same technical characteristics:the fabric is fine, hard with thin wall, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, mostly silk-shiny,exceptionally glossy or matte, dark red (2.5YR4/8): AB22II.59 (CE.1750; pl. 58). About one-quarter of a small cup very similar to Conspectusform 37.1.1. Upper surface of lip decorated with a band of rouletting between two grooves. Applied double spirals probably not preserved. On floor two concentric circles, at center stamp in planta pedis RVE The stamp may be that of the potter Rufus, possibly of central Italy and active ca. 10 B.C. to A.D. 15 (CVArr1594 = OCK 1723.3), or of the Arretine potter Rufrenus, active during the first thirty years of the first century A.D. (CVArr1599 = OCK 1728), or else of the Arretine potter T. Rufrenus, active during the first forty years of the first centuryA.D. (CVArr1600 = OCK 1730). None of the known stamps of these potters, however, corresponds exactly to ours. AB221I.60 (CE.1793). Small cup similar to the preceding with rouletting and double spirals on upper side of lip. On center of floor fragmentarystamp in plantapedis. AB2211.61 (CE.1792a-b; pl. 58). Small cup almost entirelypreserved, similarto the preceding but with double spiralsapplied to smooth upper side of lip and low groove on the interior.Wall thicker than usual and slip glossy. On floor circle with stamp at center in planta pedis VM (CVArr2385 OCK 2441), of the potter Umbricius seen above on AB22II.48. AB221I.62 (CE.1791; pl. 58). Small cup similar to the preceding with double spirals applied to smooth upper side of lip. On floor circle with stamp at center in planta pedis M. POBL (CVArr 1347 = OCK 1491) of the potter seen above on AB2211.38. Half a dozen fragmentaryexamples of Conspectusform 37 can be added to the preceding. The following five belong to form 37.1: AB22II.63. Two non-joining fragments of wall with lip from a small cup with roulettings and applied double spirals on upper side of lip. AB22II.64. Small fragment of wall with lip from a small cup similarto the preceding. AB2211.65.Two non-joining fragmentsof wall with lip from a very small cup similarto the preceding. Only tiny trace of applied double spiralvisible.

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AB221I.66. Five non-joining fragmentsfrom a cup largerthan usual. On upper side of lip band of rouletting and applied double spiral. AB22II.67. Large fragment of wall with lip from a small cup similar to the preceding but with double spiral applied to smooth upper side of lip. The following example, characterizedby the undecorated upper side of its lip, must be classified as Conspectusform 37.4: AB2211.68. Large fragment of wall with lip and beginning of floor from a small cup. The slip is slightly matte and mottled on external surface. In spite of its great popularity Conspectusform 37 does not seem to have eclipsed the earlier, simpler hemispherical cup Conspectusform 36. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/7): AB2211.69 (CE.1765; pl. 58). About one-third preserved of a large cup of Conspectusform 36.4. Rim marked by thin groove on the exterior. Circle on floor with stamp at center in planta pedis of uncertaininterpretation.The first letter may be read as a C. or L., the following letters possibly as POR or TQR. AB221I.70. Fragmentof wall with rim from a small shallow bowl. A form that does not find any comparison among those recorded in Conspectusis a cup with plain curving wall and flat base, present in level II of Room 22 with two examples. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4.8): AB2211.71 (CE.2079; pl. 58). About one-third of wall with rim and one-fifth of floor preserved from a small cup. On center of floor surroundedby an irregularcircle is a stamp in plantapedis CV (CVArr2165 = OCK 2276). It belongs to a potter C. V( ) from central Italy, active in the second quarterof the first century A.D. AB22II.72 (CE.1758; pl. 58). Base with beginning of wall from a cup probably of the same form but larger.On floor surrounded by circle stamp in plantapedis, similarto the preceding. This form is also recorded in level I of Room 11 with one example, CE.1688, of about the same dimension as the preceding but with straighterwall. Another example, CE.1718, was found in levels I-III of Room 21. On center of floor is preservedthe beginningof a rectangularstamp,possibly CA. All these levels of Rooms 11 and 21 represent a long period of accumulation,from the beginning of the Augustan period to the beginning of the reign of Claudius. The following bases with ring foot and large portion of floor can be classified as Conspectus B 2.5. In this publication they are considered typical for the late Augustan-Tiberianplates/dishes of forms 3-4, 6, 11-12, 18-20. They all share the same good technical features:a fabric fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); a slip firm, silk-shinyto glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/8):


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AB22II.73 (CE.1754a-b; pl. 58). Large portion of rim and floor on high, chamferedring foot from a platter of Conspectusform 20.4. On outer face of rim from right to left are the following applied motifs:runninggoat, pugilist Eros, seated Eros with festoon?, partiallypreservedstandingEros. On floor concentric band of fine rouletting and circle, at center stamp in planta pedis VMBR (CVArr 2385 = OCK 2441). As previously seen (AB22II.48), this potter was active, probably in Arezzo, between 10 B.C. and ca. the middle of the first century A.D. AB2211.74 (CE.1757; pl. 58). Foot similar to the preceding but more delicate, with portion of floor. On floor two sets of concentric circles, at center stamp in plantapedis Q.SVLP (CVArr1872 = OCK 2009). As previously seen (AB22II.3), the workshop of this potter, active around A.D. 15, has not been located. AB22II.75 (CE.1772; pl. 58). Foot similarto AB22II.73 but shorter,with portion of floor. Concentric relief line and set of deep circles on floor. At center fragmentarystamp in rectangularframe, undecipherable. The following base with oblique ring foot may be classified as ConspectusB 4.1-11 or bases with ring foot for cups of forms 22-25. The technical features are those of the preceding bases: AB2211.76 (CE.1752; pl. 58). Small fragment of base with foot and about one-fourth of floor. Deep circles mark the outline of floor, at center stamp in planta pedis SEX. M. [-1. The graphic characteristicsof this stamp conform best to the stamps by the "late Italian"potter Sex Murrius Festus (CVArr927', 1054 = OCK 1212), whose initialproduction of plain ware has been set around A.D. 60, outside the chronological limits of the present context. The potter Sex. MurriusT( ) from Pisa (CVArr1060 = OCK 1217), whose activityhas been dated to the period A.D. 30-50, would be chronologicallya better choice, but the praenomenon his stamps is abbreviated. The following identifiable feet of platters and plates were also found in level II of Room 22: AB2211.77. Heavy foot from a large platter of Conspectusform 1.1, datable from the early to the middle Augustan period. Its appearancein this context is unique but confirms the presence here of a small amount of Augustan material. AB22II.78. Ring foot from a platter,ConspectusB 1.9 of Augustan-Tiberiandate. AB2211.79-80. Two ring feet from platters, ConspectusB 1.11, of Tiberian-Flaviandate. AB2211.81. Ring foot from a plate, same type as the preceding. AB22II.82. Ring foot from a very small plate, same type as the preceding. AB221I.83. Ring foot from a platter,similarto ConspectusB 1.12, of Tiberian-Flaviandate. AB22II.84. Ring foot from a small plate, ConspectusB 2.5, of Augustan date.

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AB221I.85.Ring foot from a plate, ConspectusB 2.5, of late Augustan-Tiberian date. AB221I.86.Ring foot from a small plate, same type as the preceding. AB22II.87.Ring foot from a plate, ConspectusB 2.6, connected with forms 21.5-8. AB2211.88.Ring foot from a plate, ConspectusB.2.7, of Tiberian-Flaviandate. AB22II.89.Ring foot from a small plate, same type as the preceding. A survey of the stamps found in level II of Room 22 shows the following: of forty-one stamps thirty-four are in planta pedis and, with a few exceptions, sufficiently legible. Two anepigraphic stamps (AB22II.53,54) arein ellipticalframes;one indecipherablestamp (AB22II.75)is in a rectangularframe.The remainingfour are in round-ended rectangularframes:AB22II37indecipherable, AB22II.40-41anepigraphic,AB2211.44from a workshop located at Pozzuoli. Ten can be attributed with certainty to Arretine workshops, five to workshops probably Arretine, and seven to workshops located in central Italy.The location of the workshops for all the other stamps remainsunknown. The main source of production, therefore, for the sigillatapottery from Cosa was, as in the preceding periods, Arezzo and the surroundingEtruscan area. Finally,the repetition of forms and potters' names is not unusual but ratherseems to indicate shipments of a sizeable number of specimens from a specific workshop.

Atrium Building I, Room 22, Level I: Late Claudian-NeronianPeriod (AB22 I. 1-45, pls. 34-36) The sigillata found in level I of Room 22 can be divided into three groups. The first and by far the most important comprises three basic forms: a plate, Conspectusform 20.4; a dish, Conspectus form 3; a cup, Conspectusform 34. The numerous examples of these three late forms representthe pottery of common use in Cosa households around the middle of the century and thereafter.Two of five examples of the long-lastinghemisphericalbowl, Conspectusform 36, present in level I have been added to this first group. The second group comprises forms representedonly by one or two examples that chronologically may belong to a period preceding or following the catastrophicfall of the Basilica'snorthwest wall. They are: Conspectusforms 23, 26, 32, 33, and 37. The third group comprising forms dated to the Augustan period, mostly represented by one exemplar each, constitutes the random surface material. Technicallyit is a rather homogeneous group: the fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip firm, from silk-shinyto glossy, dark red (2.5YR4.8). It includes the following forms: AB221.1. Fragmentof rim from a platterwith broad articulatedrim, likely of Conspectusform 10.3. AB.221.2. Fragment of wall with lip and beginning of floor from a plate with narrow hanging lip of Conspectusform 12.5.


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AB.221.3. Small fragment of lip with beginning of wall, likely from a cup with flaring wall and hanging lip of Conspectusform 13.2. AB.22I.4. Small fragmentof lip with beginning of wall, probably from a bell-shaped cup with narrow hanging lip of Conspectusform 14.2. AB22I.5. Small fragmentof rim from a plate with concave vertical rim of Conspectusform 18.2. AB221. 6. Small fragmentof rim from a plate with concave vertical rim of Conspectusform 18.2. AB22I.7-8.Two fragmentsof wall with rim from plates with curvingwall and plain rim of the longlived Conspectusform 4. Their very small size does not permit attributionto a particularsubform, with relative dating. Their attributionto this group therefore remainshypothetical. The second group is characterized,as we have said, by a varietyof scantily representedforms that share certain basic technical features. The fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm, from silk-shinyto glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/8). A few fragments,AB221.12, 13, and possibly 14, show some deteriorationin the quality of the slip on account of either lateness of date or surface-level wear. To this second group belong the following: AB22I.9. Fragment of wall with rim from a conical cup with smooth vertical rim of Conspectus form 23.2. AB22I.10 (CE.1744). Almost complete carinated cylindrical cup with vertical rim of Conspectus form 26.1. Faint grooves on exterior wall and circle on floor. Slip largelyworn awayon the exterior, firmer and matte on the interior. AB221.11.Verysmallfragmentof verticalwall and rimwith applied double spiral,in good technique, probably from a cup of Conspectusform 26.1. AB221.12. Smallfragmentof roulettedwall with plain offset rim,probablyfrom a cup with restricted wall of Conspectusform 32.5. Four more very small fragmentsof walls with rouletting may belong to cups of similarform. AB221.13. Small fragment of wall with traces of flange, with rouletting above and grooves below. Possibly from a hemisphericalcup with narrow flange on wall of Conspectusform 33. AB221.14. Small fragment of wall with smooth outturned lip, possibly from a hemispherical cup of Conspectusform 37.4. AB221.15. Smallfragmentof wall with smooth outturnedlip from a cup similarto the preceding. Finally,the first group comprises, as we have said, the utilitariansigillatapottery,plates, dishes, and cups, present at Cosa during the late period of production of this ware.

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All the plates of this group belong to Conspectusform 20, a laterevolution of form 18, characterized by the disappearanceof the internal moldings on the rim and generallyby a smooth exterior. They share the same technical characteristics:the fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is firm but worn in spots by surface erosion, from silk-shiny to glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/8). The following four examples, AB221.16-19, with simple convex moldings framing the rim, belong to Conspectussubform 20.4: AB22I.16 (CE.1746; pl. 58). Large portion of base and small fragment of rim of a plate on high, chamfered ring foot, with double spiral applied to rim, circularband of rouletting, and grooves on floor. At center of floor stamp in planta pedis C.MVR (CVArr1043 = OCK 1200). The potter C. Murriussupposedly startedhis activityafter A.D. 15. The appearanceof his stamp on a form as late as Conspectus20.4 seems to indicate a long period of activity. AB22I.17. Small fragmentof rim with applied double spiral. AB22I.18. Small fragment of rim. AB221.19. Small fragmentof rim from a very shallow plate. AB221.20. Small fragment of rim with quadruple moldings on the exterior. Similarto Conspectus form 20.2.1. All the items in this group, a score of fragments, are hemispherical cups with the short vertical rim and pronounced flange on the wall of Conspectusform 34. They share the same technical characteristics:the fabric is fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is basically firm but worn in spots by surface erosion, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/8): AB221.21. Small fragmentof wall with rim and flange. Applied rosette on rim. AB22I.22. Small fragmentof rim with flange and beginning of wall. Applied rosette on rim. AB22I.23. Fragment of rim with flange and beginning of wall. Traces of applied decoration on rim. AB22I.24. Fragmentof wall with flange and portion of rim. AB22I.25. Large fragment of wall with flange and portion of rim. Rouletting on flange. AB22I.26. Fragmentof rim with flange and beginning of wall. Rouletting on flange. AB22I.27. Large fragmentof wall with undecorated rim bounded by grooves. The fabric is a little harder than averageand the slip very firm, matte, and darkerred (2.5YR4/7). The long-lived dish with sloping wall and bead-rim of Conspectusform 3 seems to have been very popular at Cosa during the last period of sigillataproduction. At least one example, AB22I.28, however, in its good technique and elegant articulation of the wall must belong to the earliest


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periodof productionof the typeandis to be dated,therefore,to a timeprecedingthe collapseof the Basilicawall. AB221.28 and the small fragmentAB221.29 can still be classified as examples of subform 3.1. All the other fragmentspresent an unstructuredprofile and rathercarelesstechnique, betrayingtheir relativelylate date: AB221.28. Large fragment of wall with part of floor, plus a non-joining fragment of wall with lip from a very large dish with rounded wall, inner face of rim slightly concave bounded by moldings, a groove under the lip on the exterior,another on the floor. Fabric fine, hard with ratherthick wall, pinkish yellow (5YR6/6); slip firm, glossy, dark red (2.5YR 4/8); very good technique. AB221.29. Very large fragment of wall with lip and beginning of floor from a dish with rounded body and rounded lip markedby two grooves on the exterior and a groove on the interior,circular ridge on floor.The fabricis fine, very hard,pinkish (2.5YR6/6);the slip is firm, silk-shiny,red darker than usual (10R4/7). AB221.30. Smallfragmentof wall with lip from a very small dish with rounded lip markedby groove on the exterior and interior. The fabric is fine, very hard with very thin wall, pinkish (2.5YR6/4); the slip is firm, matte, dark red (2.5YR4/7). The followingfragmentspresentcharacteristicsbetrayinga later,less carefulstagein the production of the forms. The profile of the wall tends to become stiffer,the lip poorly defined, the fabric fine and softer with wall thickerthan usual, generallyof a somewhatlighter color (from2.5YR6/6 to 2.5YR6/4 to 2.5YR6.5/4); the slip is thin, worn, matte, darkerred (from 2.5YR 4.5/8 to 1OR4/7): AB221.31. Two non-joining fragmentsof wall with lip. Groove below lip on the exterior. AB221.32. Fragment of wall with lip. Light groove defines lip on the exterior and interior. AB22I.33. Very small fragment of wall with lip similarto the preceding. AB221.34. Very small fragment of wall with lip. Groove defines lip on the exterior and interior. AB221.35. Small fragmentof wall with rounded lip defined by groove on the exterior and interior. AB221.36. Small fragment of wall with lip similarto the preceding. AB221.37. Small fragmentof wall with lip marked by groove on the exterior. AB221.38. Fragmentof wall with lip lightly molded on the exterior,groove on the interior,rouletting on upper face. AB221.39. Fragment of wall with lip, marked by light groove on the exterior, and trace of base carinationmarked by groove on the exterior. AB22I.40. Fragment of wall with beginning of carinated base marked by groove on the exterior and i nterior.

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The two hemisphericalbowls of Conspectusform 36 (AB22 1.41, 42) present the same technical characteristics:the fabric is fine, hard with thin wall, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is very firm, from silk-shinyto matte, dark red (2.5YR4/8): AB22I.41 (CE.1745; pl. 58). Four non-joining fragments,preservingabout half of a rathershallow hemisphericalcup of Conspectusform 36.4. Groove on lip on the exterior;on center of floor stamp in plantapedis is difficult to decipher. AB221.42. Four non-joining fragments of wall with lip from a shallow hemispherical cup of the same form. Light groove on lip on the exterior. Three fragments of barbotine-decoratedsigillata were found in level I of Room 22. They all share the same technical characteristics;the fabric is fine, a little soft, pinkish (2.5YR6/6); the slip is thin, slightly worn, matte, dark red (2.5YR4/8): AB221.43. Fragment of rim with beginning of wall from a dish with curving wall and drooping rim of Conspectusform 39.1.2. On upper face of rim an elongated leaf with short stem. Groove separatesrim from wall on the interior.This is a typical product of "lateItalian"workshops or late workshops in the Po Valley,datable after the middle of the first century A.D. AB22I.44. Very small fragment of rim from a dish, probably of the same form. On upper face of rim partlyworn barbotine decoration of small leaves and berries. Grooves separaterim from wall on the interior. AB22I.45. Fragmentfrom a vessel of unspecified shape (possibly a lid). A wide horizontal flange, with a line of small, unconnected leaves in barbotine and grooves on the upper face seems to have sloped upward. Below the flange is a vertical section similarto a ring foot. EXAMINATION OF THE MATERIALfound in level I of Room 22 confirmsand clarifiesour preliminary

classification,allowing us to draw the following conclusion: At this late stage in the production of Italian sigillatathe marketis dominated by a dish, Conspectusform 3; one type of plate, form 20.4; and two types of cup, forms 34 and 36.4. The presence of cups of Conspectusforms 23, 26, 32, 33, and 37, in use in smaller quantity shortly before or after the fall of the Basilicawall, demonstrates the persistence in some workshops of a more sophisticated tradition providing a largervariety of options. The appearancein level I of a few fragments (AB221.43-45) with barbotine decoration, particularlyof the plate Conspectusform 39. 1, datable from the middle of the first centuryA.D. on, further demonstratesthe later date of level I in relation to level II. The appearanceof these vessels decorated in barbotine technique is therefore documented at Cosa startingin late Claudiantimes. Their production is attributed as a rule to late Italianworkshops in the coastal region of northern Etruriaand to late workshops in the Po Valley. This interpretationof the latest presence of Italian sigillatain stratificationat Cosa resembles very closely the situation documented by G. Rizzo in Rome. Concentratinghis attention on a strategic areabetween the Coliseum and the Palatine, where well-documented building activitiestook place in Neronian and Flavian times, he was able to date the specimens of Italian sigillata found there within a narrowrange of years.During the Neronian period in Rome, as also at Cosa, a small


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number of types dominates the market: Conspectusforms 20.4, 36.4, 34.3, and, most popular of all, form 3. At the same time several types of cups, Conspectusforms 23, 27, 32, 33, and 37, are produced in small quantities.And in Rome, as in Cosa at the same time, there is a modest presence of barbotine-decoratedvessels, among them the plate of Conspectusform 39.29

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Fig. 43. Arezzo, Archaeological Museum, inv. no. 75839(?). Mold

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signedbyNicephorus.

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Sleeping man, warningwoman, and boy behind curtain.

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(fig. 43 ).86 A fragmentsigned by Cerdo in Munich, mentioned by Dragendorff, on which the male figure D/W XIII, 8 is repeated twice (see below n. 106), may suggest that he was responsible for the introduction of the cycle. At the end of the nineteenth centurythe first two molds were used in the forgeryof five stamps and nine new molds now scattered among importantmuseums in Europe and America.87Since our knowledge of the cycle until recentlyrelied heavilyon this well-publicized material,its recent discreditingfurtherhamperedthe alreadydifficult reconstructionof the original version of the cycle. The couples participatingin the symposium were obtained, possibly with the exception of one (fig. 41), the girl grasping the chin of her companion,88through separate stamps, one for each figure, thus multiplying the number of possible combinations. The lady, D/W XIII, 3, who makes a gesture of warning and appears in association with different partners, is a case in point. This freedom, already noticeable during the first phase of the workshop, becomes more evident during the Tigranus period, to which the Cosa fragment should be assigned on the basis of its secondary decoration. In a study on the iconographic sources of the "Symposiumand Erotic Scenes" in Arretinepottery, D/W XIII, XIV, I was able to detect a literaryinfluence on some of the groups and, through it, to identify their original representation.The boy behind the curtain now becomes associated with the warning lady D/W XIII, 3 and her sleeping partner D/W XIII, 7. Since my researchwill be completed in the near future, I shall summarizehere its essential points, particularlyin relation to the Symposium scenes.89 PORTENPALANGE,Fdlschungen, 599 and n. 432. I owe knowledge of this vase previously in the Archeological Museum of Florence to the courtesy of Paola Porten Palange. 86

87

PORTENPALANGE,Fdlschungen,564-65.

88

Above n. 84.

A preliminaryreport given at the XVI InternationalCongress of ClassicalArchaeology,Boston, 23-26 August 2003, will appear in the Actes of the Congress. 89

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Fig. 44. Plastercastfrom Begram.Sleeping maenad (fromHACKIN,Begram,fig. 280, no. 126).

It is generally assumed that the Symposium and Erotic scenes on Arretine pottery reflect the culturaland social environmentof the elegiac poetry of the Augustan age.90This assumptioncan be accepted if we envisage this poetry as a related subject that may have promoted interest in this kind of imagery.The iconographic sources for at least some of these scenes, however, are rooted in the sympotic and love poetry of the Alexandrianepigrammatists.9'A close scrutiny of the Symposium groups will revealthat in some of them, beneath the polished surfaceof the neoclassical taste of the day,there are iconographicand stylisticfeaturesthat point back to the art of Hellenistic Alexandria. The odd hairdo of the boy behind the curtain is the cyrrusin vertice, a variation of the Egyptian side-lock of the Child-Horus,which seems to have an ethnic Africanorigin,9 appropriatefor a slave boy. His linen tunic with short flaring sleeve was a traditional Egyptian garment from Pharaonic times on. His figure in profile on a continuous plane with the curtain in frontal view is a reminder of the peculiaritiesof Egyptian perspective. The use of a small isolated element, such as a curtain, to define a locale is a device seen in other works of Alexandrianorigin.93 As to the sleeping young man, D/W XIII, 7 (figs. 40, 43), it soon becomes evident that his broad realistic face and muscular body have little in common with the Polykleitean perfection of other symposiasts in true neoclassical style, D/W XIII, 5. His drunken sleep with his head tilted back and his arm thrown over his head is remarkablysimilarto the bust of a sleeping maenad on a plaster cast from Begram (fig. 44).9 The same features, but drawn to the point of an almost brutal 'o On the relation between sympotic context and Roman erotic elegy, see J. C. Yardley,"The Symposium in Roman Elegy,"in W.J. Slater,ed., Dining in a ClassicalContext(Ann Arbor 1991) 149-55. 0. Brendel noticed the great affinity between Arretine scenes of symposiumand representationsof the same theme on Greek red-figured vases, but, although he assumed the influence of Alexandria on the new erotic iconography,he failed to see a connection with epigram: "The Scope and Temperamentof Erotic Art in the Graeco-RomanWorld," in T. Bowie and C. V. Christenson,eds., Studiesin EroticArt (New York and London 1970) 4a, 57-58.

91

Antiquitas 1, vol. 4 (Bonn 1957) 39-50. 9' MOEVS,Kalathos,26,

fig. 38; ead., EphemeralAlexandria, 138-40, fig. 23. In this context I may mention the attempt to show perspective by placing a boy, evidently derived from the Arretine model, behind the leaf of a half-open door in the homoerotic scenes represented on the so-called Warren cup, a silver vessel of such poor stylistic quality that it must be the work of an unskilled forger:J. R. Clarke, Looking at Lovemaking(Berkeley 1998) 61-72, figs. 16-22, pls. 1-2; J. Pollini, "HomoeroticLove and SymposialRhetoricin Silver," ArtB 81 (1999) 21-31, figs. 1-9.

94 HACKIN, Begram,no. 126, pp. 114-15, fig. 280; B. BarrOn the Egyptian connotation of this type of coiffure and Sharrar,The Hellenistic and Early ImperialDecorativeBust its ethnic origin, see V. von Gonzenbach, Untersuchungen (Mainz am Rhein 1987) P 3, pp. 161-62, pl. 75, dated to the zu den Knabenweihenim Isiskult der romischenKaiserzeit= first half of the second century B.C.

92

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THE DECORATED SIGILLATAWARE

Fig.45 Arezzo, ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 4626. Mold signed by Nicephorus.Groupin neoclassicalstyle.

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realism recallingcertain portraitsof the earlyPtolemies,~ can be seen in the young man who turns his head away from his amorous partner,D/W XIII, 6 (fig. 41). The sleeping man and warningwoman couple, D/ W XIII, 7,3, accompaniedby the boy behind the curtain and the couple in which the man turns his head away from the girl who grasps his chin in an attempt to attracthim, D/W XIII, 6,2, both present in the three molds signed by Nicephorus, go back to models of Alexandrianorigin createdin the earlyHellenistic period. They must therefore belong to the original nucleus of cycle XIII. From the very beginning a group in neoclassical style, composed of the young man, D/W XIII, 5, and a woman holding a lyre, D/W XIII, 1, mold 4626 (fig. 45), must have been added to this original nucleus to enlarge the decorative repertory. The peculiar characterof the original groups, whose composition and gesture seem to alude to, ratherthan to represent in detail, a particularsituation, suits the very nature of the epigram,9 the earliestdocumented literarygenre in Alexandria,which was to become one of the most popular artisticforms in the Hellenistic world:We must resortparticularlyto the themes of the sympotic and erotic epigramsthat depict the pleasuresof the banquetand love with their consequentialsorrows,in order to find a plausible explanation for the actions performed by the original Arretine couples. To the end of the reign of Soter and the beginning of that of Philadelphusbelong the firstthree epigrammatistsAsclepiades of Samos, Posidippus of Pella, and Hedylus of Samos, all of them connected with the artistic life of Alexandria.9 Their work, along with that of later epigrammatists, was collected into a comprehensive anthology, the Garland,by Meleager of Gadara shortly after 100 B.C.9 Due to its very conciseness the epigramwas bound to be anthologized, so that it is logical to assume that other collections preceded the Garlandof Meleager;we have, in fact, evidence for a joint edition of the first three epigrammatists.With the compilation of anthologies arises the need to organize their contents so that, even if a thematic arrangementdemonstrablybelongs to a late 95 M. T. MarabiniMoevs, "Strategosand Savior:A Portraitof

Ptolemy I in Baltimore,"BdA 78 (1993) 6-7, fig. 9, pl. I.

Ibid., 181-224; A. Rostagni, Poeti alessandrini (Torino 1916) 201-51; P. M. Fraser,PtolemaicAlexandria,I (Oxford 1972) 555-75.

On this definition, introduced first by Pasquali, see G. in I. Lanaand E. V.Maltese,Storia Guidorizzi,L'Epigramma, della civiltdletterariagrecae latina, II (Torino 1998) 182.

98

97

96

GOW/PAGE, Hellenistic Epigrams.On this and successive anthologies, see CAMERON,GreekAnthology.

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we maypostulateanearlydemandforit.'00Althoughillustratededitionsof the epigramsare date,99 not recorded,the veryappearanceof vignettesthat characterizes thesecompressedcompositions suggestsnot onlytheiroriginalconnectionwithpaintingandsculpture101 but alsotheiradaptability for illustration. Broadthematicreferences,in additionto specificpoems,may also be found in the images handeddown to us in Arretinepottery.The curtainliftedby the slaveboy separatesthe outside worldfromthe secludedspaceof the symposiumwith its abundantlibationsand eroticsequels. Exhaustedby the enjoymentof both, the youngmanhasfallenasleeplike "asecondEndymion," warmedby thebodyof hisbeautifulcompanion.Thebroadthemeof wineandlovemaking pervades the scene,102andin the postureof the youngmanrecallingthe sleepof Endymionwe canalsoread referenceto a specificepigram.103 Meanwhilethe outsideworldof the komoswith its wandering revelersis pressingat the door,andanotherclient,invitedor not, is beggingadmittance: the young slavehascometo announcehisarrival.Caughtin thisembarrassing circumstance, theyoungwoman withhercautionary gestureis tryingto protectthe sleepof the firstwhilekeepingthe secondatbay, who, suddenlyawareof the situation,mayonly retreatin bitternessand complaint.Thesemotifs of revelersgoingto the girl'shouseandof the exclususamatorareverycommonin Hellenisticand laterepigramsandwereearlytreatedby Asklepiades,who influencedalllaterdevelopment.104 In the groupof the youngmanwho turnshis attentionawayfromthe womanwho is pulling himto herwe canreadthe themeof the epigramof the "doublepain,"wherethe conflictof being lovedby a womanwhilelovinganotheris expressedin the samevisualterms.'05 To the set of originalcouplesa thirdmaybe added,well documentedon a chalicefromVetera signedby M. PerenniusTigranus.Thisis composedof a youth,D/W XIII, 8, andyoungwoman, D/W XIII,4, turnedtowardeachotheron the bed to sharea cupheldby the man.106 Themotifof the wine cup sharedby two loversalsobelongsto the repertoryof epigram.107 Probablyconnectedwiththe Symposiumcycle,I think,is alsothe puzzlingfigureof a woman who, aloneor looselyassociatedwithothersymposiasts, is seatedbendingforwardatthe endof the kline,hidingherfacewith both handsandevidentlyweeping,D/W XIII, 9 (fig.46).108Her torso is nudeexceptfor a breastband,a garmentthatas a hetaera'strademarkacquiresa roleof its own 99 The Milanese papyrus Vogliano no. 1295 of medieval times. 100CAMERON, GreekAnthology, 19-24. For the identification of "families" of kindred epigrams in the Anthology, see TARAN,Art of variation,52-114; for the sympotic epigrams in particularsee GIANGRANDE, Sympoticliterature,93-174. 1O0D. H. Garrison,Mild Frenzy:A Readingof the Hellenistic Love Epigram,Hermes Einzelschriften41 (Wiesbaden 1978) 49-50. 102GIANGRANDE, Sympoticliterature,n. 8, 127-39, on drunkeness, ibid., 156-63. 103 Anth. Pal, V, 165. According to GOW/PAGE, this epigram goes back to Asklepiades: Hellenistic Epigrams,I, 230 no. 51; II, 634.

04Anth. Pal., V, 164; GOW/PAGE,HellenisticEpigrams,1, 47, no. XIII; TARAN,Art of variation,6-114.

105

Anth. Pal., V, 269: "I once sat between two ladies, of one of whom I was fond, while to the other I did it as a favour. She who loved me drew me towards her.... Sighing I said, 'It seems that I suffer double pain, in that both loving and being loved are a torture to me'," trans. W. R. Paton, The GreekAnthology,Loeb ClassicalLibrary(London and New York 1927) no. 269. 106 OxE, Rhein, 41-43, pl. Ila, dated on the basis of its context to 10 B.C.;HOFFMANN,TerraSigillata,79 A, 2; LEHNER, Trinkgefdsse,42 1-24, pl. LIX, 1. The youth is also present on a fragmentin Munich signed by Cerdo (D/W. 88).

107

Anth.Pal.,V, 171.

108 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, fragmentof mold signed by M. Perennius Tigranus,CHASE,Boston, 60, no. 37, pl. XXIV. She is also present on the chalice from Vetera mentioned above n. 106, OxE, Rhein, pI. i,lb.

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in epigram.'109 Openly advertisingher vocation, it sets her apart from women more conservatively clad. Though epigramspresenting the point of view of women are rare, severallament the betrayal by a lover.110This figure also serves as a warning not to draw too sharp a distinction between the Symposium and Erotic groups, at least in the workshop of Perennius. Unlike certain erotic scenes appearingin other workshops-those for instance of Rasiniusand C. Cispius, whose crude realism may be connected with the lovemaking manuals of the Hellenistic period-the Symposium and Erotic scenes of Perennius seem to reflect the sequence of banquet and symplegma of classical Greece. No. 23 (pls. 41, 68). From Atrium Building I, Room 14 adjacentto northwest wall of the Basilica, unstratified.Large fragment of lower body and foot from a chalice. Fabric:fine, veryhard,pinkish (2.5YR6/5). Slip:firm,silk-shiny/matte,darkred (10R4/5). Technique: defective manufacture. Form: The low pedestal foot suggests a form similar to Conspectus R 2.2, middle to late Augustan. Decoration: Lower portion of central decoration from left to right: Rear leg of chair, deep loop of curtain or other drapery,body preserved below the waist of a young woman sitting on a chair similar to the preceding; she is turned to the right and her only garment seems to be a mantle covering her legs. Close to the front leg of her chair are traces of a scabellum, played by another musician. It is possible to reconstruct a scene of three female musicians, two seated facing in opposite directions playing the auloi and the kithara,and a young woman, probably a dancer,who plays the krotala,hidden, except for her head and arms,behind a hanging drapery.They seem to belong to a quintet, like the one represented on the chalice by Tigranusfrom Vetera (see above p. 125), which also included a young man playing the kitharastanding at the left and, on the opposite side, an elThis naturalseat, which clashes derlyman seated on a rock who plays the auloi and the kroupalon.11" with the classical elegance of the chairs on which the female musicians are sitting, is better suited 109

Anth. Pal., V, 158: "I played once with captivating Hermione and she wore a zone of many colours bearing letters of gold; all around it was written, 'Love me and be not sore at heart if I am another's',"trans. Paton (above n. 105) 203, no. 158. See also GOW/PAGE,HellenisticEpigrams, L,45, no. IV.

110Even if they tend to be

of a late date, we may assume that they are repeatinga traditionaltheme. Of particularinterest is an epigram presenting a hetaera in tears for having been used and abandoned, Anth. Pal., V, 275. "I Above n. 106, Oxt, Rhein, pI. II, lc-d; see also in particular LEHNER,Trinkgefdsse,424-25, fig. 3.


127

to the originalidentityof the elderlyplayerwho appearsas a satyrin the cycleof the "Dionysian Offering,"D/W XII, 2, alongwith the samekrotalaplayer,D/W XII, 3.112The faultypressingof the threecentralfigureson the Cosafragment,the Veterachalice,anda fragmentof a kraterfrom Arezzoin the AshmoleanMuseum,113alsoassignedto M. PerenniusTigranus,revealsthe awkward introductionof the krotalaplayerbetweentwo originallywingedmusiciansbelongingto the cycle of "Music-Playing GeniusesandMermaids," D/W V,34114 Theassemblyof theseassortedmusiciansandtheirsomewhatforcedcoexistencearea product of theTigranusphaseof theworkshop,to whichtheCosafragmentmustalsobe assigned.Although the musicalthemeplaysan importantrolein sympoticepigrams,thisparticularensemblemustbe excludedfromthe originalnucleusof Symposiumscenes. No. 24 (pls.41, 69). Fromthe areaalongthe northeastside of the Basilica,unstratified. Fragment fromlowerbodywith smallportionof basefroma beakerof Aco type. Fabric:fine,hard,pinkish(2.5YR6/5).Slip:thin,firm,silk-shinyoutside,matteinsidewithwheel marks,darkred (2.5YR4/7).Technique: verygood,verythinwall. Form:Lowerhalf of a smallconicalbeakerwith slightlycurvingwallnarrowingat a sharpangle, to the groundline of the maindecorationtowarddiskbase.The formbearsonlya corresponding genericrelationto thebeakerConspectus formR 12 andis closerto northItalianAco beakerLAvIzZARIPEDRAZZINI type 3

b, which, however, lacks the angulartransitiontoward the base.115

Decoration:Of the maindecorationarepreservedthe fragmentary figuresof two dancersfacing eachotherin panelsseparatedby two verticalridgesfromwhoselowerend two manuscriptstalks rise. Of the left dancerfacingrightarevisibleonly a leg and a handholdinga line of barbotine dots suggestinga garland;of the rightdancermovingto the right,the body in profilebelow the waist survives.

The two dancersbelong to the cycle of "Dancingand Music-Making Figures,"D/W XXI, whichincludesa dozenmaleandfemaletypes.116The left dancercorrespondsto D/W XXI, 6, a malefiguresteppingto the right,his headandbodyfromthe waistdownin profile,his torsowith armsstretchedto eithersideholdinga garland,frontal.Therightdancercorrespondsto D/W XXI, 5, a malefiguresteppingto the left withlowerbodyin profile,upperbodyfrontal,the headtilted back in profileto the rightand both armsraisedabovehis headwith his handstouching.Both figuresweara shortexomis. Since the handsomestexamplesof this verypopularcycle, six knownmolds,provedto be the best comparandum forgeries,'17 for the Cosafragmentis a beakermoldin the Archaeological Museumof Arezzosignedby PerenniusTigranuson whichbothof ourfiguresappear.118 Thesame figures,turnedin oppositedirections,arepresenton a fragmentof a bowlmoldin theAntiquarium of the NationalMuseumin Rome,assignedto the Tigranusphaseof the workshop.119 To the same phasemustbe assignedthe Cosafragment. 112 D/W, 78-81; the most complete example is the mold in the Arezzo Archaeological Museum inv. no. 6179, VIVIANI, Vasiaretini,figs. 1-3, assignedto the firstphase of Perennius by STENICO,Liste, no. 401.

115 LAVIZZARI

PEDRAZZINI, Aco, 31-32, pl. 2.

116

D/W, 103-5.

117 PORTEN

PALANGE,Fdlschungen,566-67.

113

BROWN,Ashmolean, no. 23, p. 12, pl. 8. 118

VIVIANI,Vasiaretinz,fig. 26.

"4 D/W, 65-67. See musiciansD/W V, 3-4 with overlapping

wings on a mold fragment in the Metropolitan Museum of New York, ALEXANDER, Arretine, pl. XXXIX,1.

119 PORTENPALANGE,

Antiquarium, no. 35, pp. 36-37, pl.

VI.

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No. 25 (pls. 41, 69). From area along the northwest wall of the Basilica,unstratified.Two non-joining fragmentsof the upper body with rim from a broad beaker. Fabric:fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/5). Slip: thin, firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/7). Technique: good, thin wall, faint wheel marks inside. Form: The short vertical rim with everted lip set off from the curving wall by multiple grooves suggests a broad beaker with curving wall and disk base of Conspectusform R 11, possibly late Augustan. It appears to have been in use during the Tigranusphase of the workshop. Decoration:Traces of a manuscript floral spray are preserved on the smaller fragment. On the larger fragmentis a row of lightly manuscriptbranching stalks and to the right probably part of a stylized flower. No. 26 (pls. 41, 69). From AtriumBuilding I, Room 16, level I. Augustan-Claudian.Smallfragment from central decoration. Fabricand slip: like the preceding entry. Technique:like the preceding but with thicker wall. Decoration:left upper section of the dancer D/W XXI, 5. Perennius Tigranusphase. No. 27 (CD.1038; pls. 41, 69). From the area along the northwest wall of the Basilica,unstratified. Large fragment of quarter-roundelement and beginning of curving body from a chalice possibly of Conspectusform R 2. Fabric:fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/5). Slip: thin, firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/7). Technique: very good. Decoration:A convex molding bounded by grooves separatesthe decorationfrom the quarter-round element. Below it is an ovolo-and-tongue border of type D/W 18.120 In the main field remainsonly the stamp M.PERENN/TIGRANI in a rectangularframe (CVArr12461 = OCK 1411.1). No. 28 (CE.1800;pls. 41, 69). From Atrium Building I, unstratified.Smallfragmentof upper body from a vase of indeterminateform, possibly a beaker. Fabric:fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6). Slip:thin, firm, silk-shiny/matte,dark red (2.5YR4/7). Technique:good, mechanical abrasions. Decorationfrom top:Naturalisticgrapevineof which a bunch of grapeswith tendril and beginning of a leaf are preserved;below it is a chain of tiny leaves. In the main field is a fragmentarystamp in rectangularframe with the signatureM. PE[RENI] (CVArr1247 = OCK 1390.3), originallyfollowed by the signature of Tigranusin a separate stamp. This type of grapevine band is known to belong in the Tigranusphase of the workshop.121

The BargathesPeriod No. 29 (CD.470; pls. 42, 70). Fragmentsfound scatteredoutside the northwest wall of the Basilica, unstratified.Verylarge fragment(composed of fourteen joining fragments)of body from the rim to the attachmentof the foot, large fragment composed of five joining fragmentsof upper body with rim, and two small non-joining fragmentsfrom a chalice, about one-quarterpreserved.The foot, a separatefragment,is now lost. Fabric:fine, very hard, pinkish (1OR6/5).Slip:firm, glossy, dark red (1OR4/7). 120

D/W, 18,fig. 1.

121

CHASE,Boston, no.

16,p. 43, pl. XXIV


129

Form:The deep curvingbody andsharplyarticulatedhangingrim,concaveon its outerfacewith convexmoldingsaboveand below,correspondto a chaliceof Conspectus formR 2.2, typicalof the findsof Haltern,middleto lateAugustan.On ourvasea moldingseparatesthe quarter-round elementbelow the rimfromthe decoratedfield;the outerface of rimandmoldingaredecorated with rouletting.The pedestalfoot (lost)wouldalsocorrespondto Conspectus formR 2.2. Decoration: The decoratedfieldis boundedat top by a line of smallroundbeads,an ovolo-andtongueborder,and a chainof tinyleaves.The mainfieldis decoratedwithgarlandshangingfrom bucraniaaboveinvertedHerculesclubs:122 a: On the largerfragmentan elongatedbucraniumabovean invertedHerculesclubprovidesan axis.Tothe sidesof the bucraniumhangthe tasseledendsof a taenia woundaroundits horns. Fromthe headof the clubto eithersidespringa floralcalyxanda serratedleafon manuscript scrollingstems.Fromthe hornsof the bucraniumhangheavyfestoonsof foliage,pinecones, andfruit,evidentlysupportedat oppositeextremitiesby otherox heads.A verticalspikewith spiralthreadappearsabovethe preservedleft serratedleaf;otherspikes,preservedon isolated fragments,mayhaveoccupiedthe emptyareasunderthe festoons.Abovethe rightfestoon, belowthe chainof leaves,appearsthe left cornerof a rectangular stampwith corner"nails" preservingthe letterM. b: On a secondlargefragmentis preserveda differenttypeof ox head:its eyes,bushybrow,and naturalisticmuzzledefineit as a bukephalion.123 c: Verysmallfragmentpreservingpartof a bucranium. It canbe inferredfromthisthatthe overall compositionincludedtwobucraniaandtwo bukephalia, the numberfittingtheproportionsof the vase. d: On a smallseparatefragmentunderthe ovolo-and-tongue andthe chainof leavesis preserved the upperleft cornerof a stampin a rectangular framewithindentedborderwithtwo letters: BA[RGATE](CVArr1256,1257= OCK1404.3).Thisis froma two-partstamp,the firstpart with the signatureM. PEREN(OCK1390.4),whosefirstletteris preservedon fragment(a). These correspond, the first to BARGATHEStype G, the second to type BARGATHEStype B.124 The ovolo-and-tongue bordercorrespondsto D/W type 1 1,125 BARGATHEStype 3 ,126 The two

typesof ox heads,thebucraniumandthe bukephalion, appearinsertedintoa horizontalfloralfrieze or framedby fusiformelementswith spiralthreadon mold fragmentsattributedto Bargathes.127 Theirassociationwith the invertedclub,however,is to my knowledgepreviouslyundocumented in the repertoryof Bargathes,thoughsucha club as an isolatedelementis knownin the repertory of Rasinius,128 who alsomakesuse of the bucranium129 andof the bukephalion (fig.47),130 Bucrania holdinggarlandsarewell knownin the Tigranusphaseof the workshop.131 Bucraniaholdinggarlandsof foliage,pinecones,andfruitcallimmediately to mindthe interior 122

MOEVS,Horai 5, fig. 13.

The term bucraniumis usually adopted for both types of head, which are in realityvery different, have a different development, and should be distinguished; see C. B6rker, "Bukranionund Bukephalion,"AA 70 (1975) 244-50. 123

127 BARGATHES,138, no. 130 (bucraniumin floralfrieze), 148, no. 148 (bukephalionin floral fieze); D/W, pl. 22, no. 285 (bucraniumin floralfrieze), pl. 22, 294 (bukephalionframed by elements with spiral thread).

128

STENICO,Rasinius, no. 124, p. 38, pl. 25, and p. 62, no.

132. 124

Porten Palange in BARGATHES, 18, pl. I.

125

D/W, 18, fig. 1.

126

Porten Palange in BARGATHES, 16, pl. II.

129

Ibid., no. 128, p. 38, pl. 26, and no. 155, p. 64.

130

Ibid., no. 123, p. 37, pl. 25, and no. 156, p. 64.

131

D/W, pl. 13, nos. 176-80.

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frieze of the Ara Pacis enclosure.132 Indeed this frieze may have encouraged the diffusion of such decorative devices on subsequent monuments and in the minor arts, but the combination of bucranium and bukephalionholding the same type of garland on the Bargathes chalice opens the possibility of other influences. In his study of the Hellenistic round altars from Asia Minor Berges has demonstrated that originally the bucranium was connected with a garland of foliage, but in the course of the second century B.C. these are replaced by the bukephalion and garland of fruit.133 The garland of fruit hanging from an ox skull is a classicistic creation of Augustan times and the Ara Pacis its oldest example. Not later than the middle of the second century B.C. on the islands of Rhodes, Cos, Delos, and in the Greek cities of Asia Minor begins production of round altars decorated with bukephaliaand garlandsof fruit, which continues down to the early imperial period. It is possible to find the closest comparanda for the bukephalionand garland on the Bargathes chalice among examples dated to the first quarter of the first century A.D.'134Moreover, the severe design of the vittae of Bargathes,very different from the floating ribbons of the frieze of the Ara Pacis, finds a close parallel on the Hellenistic altars.The appearanceof the ribbon vitta, in addition to the commoner Hellenistic design of Tigranus,suggests that the bucranium with garland of fruit may have been introduced into the workshop at the time of the dedicatio of the Ara Pacis in 9 B.C.Finally, it would not seem too far-fetched to think that the silversmithsresponsible for the transfer of the motif from marble to metal may have also found in the round altar ready inspiration for the arrangement of the decoration of the vase. Though a date in the last decade of the first century B.C. can be accepted as a terminuspost quem for the Cosa chalice, the more rigid and stylized features of the bucranium of Bargathesare shared by works later than the creation of the altar,such as certain sarcophagi of early imperial 132

LAROCCA, Ara Pacis, 15.

D. Berges,HellenistischeRundaltdreKleinasiens(Freiburg 1986) 93 ff.

133

134 Ibid., K 98, pp. 176-77, fig. 134, altar from Kyme in the Museum of Istanbul of late Augustan date; K 100, pp. 177-78, fig. 136, altarfrom Trallesin the Museumof Aydinof

the first quarterof the first century A.D.; K 101, pp. 178-79, fig. 137, from Side in the Museum of Side of the first quarter of the first century A.D.; K 109, pp. 182-83, fig. 143, altar from Tralles in the Museum Basmahane di Izmir dated to the first third of the first century B.C.; K 111, pp. 183-84, fig. 145, altar from Aphrodisias in the same museum of the first quarterof the first century A.D.


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date.Similarto the type of Bargathesis the bucraniumholdinga garlandon a sarcophagusfrom the cemeteryof Ostiaassigneda lateAugustandate,135 a datecloserto the Cosachalice. No. 30 (pls.42, 71). Sporadic.Twofragmentsfromupperbodyof a vaseof indeterminate form. Fabric:fine,hard,pinkish(2.5YR6/5).Slip:firm,glossy,darkred (2.5YR4/6).Technique: good. Decoration: Aboveis a friezeof horizontal,reversingpalmettesjoinedin pairsat the base;below the conjunctionis a rosetteof sevendots arounda centraldot. In fieldbelow are: a: Rightend of a rectangularstampwith indentedframepreservingthe lettersTE. It can be restoredas [BARGA]TE(CVArr1256, 1257= OCK1404.3). b: Undecipherable motif,perhapsa birdwithraisedwing? The rosette corresponds to BARGATHEStype 23,136 the palmette to D/W type 24;137the latter is

similarto BARGATHEStype9 but has six lateralleavesinsteadof four,withthe rosetteplacednot at the pointof juncturebut belowit. No. 31 (pls.42, 71). FromAtriumBuildingI, Room16.Augustan-Claudian. Twofragmentsfrom centralbodyof a vasewithdeepcurvingbody,probablya broadbeakerof Conspectus formR 11.1, datedtentativelymiddleto lateAugustan. Fabric:fine,hard,pinkish(2.5YR6/4).Slip:thin,firm,silk-shiny,darkred (2.5YR4/8).Technique: good. A fragmentof a moldin the ArezzoMuseum,inv.no. 3031 fromthe workshopof BarDecoration: gathesat SantaMariain Gradi,providesa guideforthe reconstruction of the decorationfillingthe field.138Ourtwo fragments,thoughnon-joining,whenarrangedwiththe largerabovethe smaller, showthe centralelementof the composition: a palmetteof typeD/W fig.6,4, springing,witha grain earon eachside,D/W fig.6,16,froma floralcalyx,D/W fig.6,30.Thecalyxsurmountsaninverted palmette,flankedby peltae,BARGATHESpl. II, 16. Aboveeachpalmetteis an eight-petaledflower. Fragmentsof incisedsemicircleson both sidesof the upperpalmetteandarchingaboveit belong to the originalpanelingof the decoration.At the upperleft pointof intersectionof the semicircles is a multipetalrosette.The decorationis framedaboveby a chainof tinyleaves. A similardecorationcan be seen on a broadbeakerof Conspectus formR 11.1 signedby M. PerenniusBargathesin the BostonMuseumof Fine Arts.'39 Thiskind of decoration,assignedby Dragendorff to theinitialphaseof theactivityof Bargathes andidentifiedas "Bargathesmeister A,"140 is sharedby a groupof productsof uncertainattribution,labeledby Stenico"protobargateo."'14' No. 32 (CD.656;pls.42,71).FromtheDumpatthenorthwest cornerof theBasilica, levelI. LateAugustan(seeabovepp. 38-39). Threenon-joining fragments of bodywithbeginningof baseof a chalice. Fabric:fine,hard,pinkish(2.5YR6/5).Slip:firm,glossy,darkred (2.5YR4/7). Form:The decoratedbodyis framedaboveby a plainheavymoldingthatseparatesit froma plain zone above,suggestinga formsimilarto Conspectus R 4.2 but withoutroulettingon the molding. 135 H. Brandenburg, "Der Beginn der stadtr6mischen Sarkophagproduktionder Kaiserzeit,"JdI 93 (1978) 307, figs. 36-37. 136 BARGATHES, pI.

137

II.

D/W, 18, fig. 1.

138 BARGATHES,

125, no. 112.

1'3

CHASE,Boston, no.128, pp. 105-6, pl. I.

140

D/W,44-52.

141 STENICO, Liste, 16-17. For a more exhaustivetreatmentof the problem, see Porten Palange in BARGATHES, 14-16.

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Decoration: The decoratedsurfaceis coveredwith a seriesof smallcurvingshields,eachoutlined borderbelowa rowof closely andfinishedwitha ropeborder.Abovethemis anovolo-and-tongue spacedbossesand abovea chainof tinyleaves.Belowthe smallshieldsis a row of largerbosses. Betweenthetipsof two smallshieldsis thesignatureMPERENin a rectangular frame(CVArr1256, 43 = OCK 1390.4)froma two-partstampof M. PerenniusBargathes. An identicalmoldis in the Archaelogical Museumof Arezzo.142 Shieldsof verysimilardesign decoratea chalicefoundatHalternsignedby Cn.AteiusXanthus,probablyfromthePisaworkshop, whichsupportsthe Cosachronology.143 No. 33 (pls.42, 71). Fromareaalongthe northside of the Basilica,unstratified. Fournon-joining fragmentsof body andrimfroma chalice. Fabric:fine,veryhard,pinkishclay(2.5YR6/5).Slip:thick,flaky,darkred (2.5YR4/7).Technzque: mediocre. Form:Theshallowcurvingbodyandtherimwitha roulettedconvexmoldingandslightlyoutturned lip vaguely recall the chalice of Conspectusform R 5.1 and the rime of RUDNICK 8.144

Decoration:The ovolo-and-tongue borderwith row of bosses and the smallshieldswith double outlineareidenticalto thoseof the preceding. Formanddecorationarereminiscentof the Hellenisticleafphialewithovoidbosses,145 whose motifswould seem to havebeen combinedin Arretinepotteryinto a singleone.146 This type of phialemaybe the productof workshopsin PtolemaicEgypt.147 No. 34 (pls.42, 72). Fromthe sewerof StreetM. Middleto lateAugustan(see abovep. 35). Four non-joiningfragmentsof bodywithbeginningof the baseof a chalice. Fabric:fine, hard, pinkish (10R6/6). Slip:firm, glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/6). Technique:moderately

good, somemechanicalabrasions. Form:The hemisphericalbody, separatedfrom the vertical rim by a moderatelythick molding with rouletting, may suggest a form like that of the preceding or of ConspectusR 9.1, which probably began in the Tiberianperiod and is associated with Bargathes. Decoration:The decorated field is filled by a row of large nautiliwith simple outline spiralingto the right and separated by vertical, rope-twist spikes ending in small rosettes. Above is a row of small concentric circles, below a row of small rosettes. The row of nautili as a main decorative device is very common in the repertoryof Bargathes;148 the same types of rosettes and small circles as accessorymotifs also appearthere.149Nautili separated by vertical spikes also appear.150Nautilus-decoratedfragments from the Pisa workshop of Ateius are found at Haltern, which again supports the Cosa chronology.151 142 Inv. no. 25682. BARGATHES, 149, no. 149, with extensive bibliography.

143

RUDNICK,Ha no. 44, pp. 176-77, pl. 23.

144

Ibid., form pl. 3.

D. E. Strong, Greek and Roman Gold and Silver Plate (London 1966) 99, p1.25A.

outline, rising on slender rope stems; ibid., 99, pl. 25B. 147

H. Luschey,Die Phiale (Bleicherode 1939) 128 ff.

148

BARGATHES, 150-54,

149

Ibid., pl. II, 23, 26.

150

D/W, pI.20, no. 330.

151

RUDNICK,Ha nos. 46, 50-5 1, pp. 177-78, pl. 24.

nos. 152-58.

145

146 Of particularinterest is a deep bowl from Ithaca in the British Museum with a row of egg-shaped bosses with rope


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No. 35 (pls. 43, 72). From the sewer of Street M? Late Augustan? Small fragmentof body. Fabric:very fine, soft, pale pinkish (2.5YR7/4). Slip:firm,silk-shiny,darkred (2.5YR4/7). Technique: mediocre, wheel marks on inner face. Decoration:A nautilus very similarto the preceding but spiralingto the left. No. 36 (CE.1707; pls. 43, 73). From AtriumBuilding I, Rooms 11 and 21, level I. Augustan-Claudian. Two non-joining fragmentsof body and base, one very large with base, from a broad beaker. Fabric:fine, hard, some impurities,pinkish (2.5YR6/4). Slip:firm, from glossy to matte in different areas,dark red (2.5YR4/6). Technique:good to mediocre, some mechanicalabrasions,wheel marks on inner surface. Form:The broad disk base and curving body indicate a beaker of Conspectusform R 11.1 Decoration:A row of nautili spiralingto the left, springingfrom a row of small round bosses closely spaced. The nautili are doubly outlined with flat interior.Above the nautili are traces of the curling leaves of two of a chain of reversingpalmettes (see following entry). No. 37 (pls. 43, 73). From Atrium Building I, Room 25B, levels II/III; 25C, level III. Tiberian? Fragment of upper body. Fabric:very fine, soft, pinkish yellow (5YR6/5). Slip: almost entirely eroded on the exterior, thin, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/7) on the interior. Technique:wheel marks on inner face. Decoration:Upper part of a large horizontal palmette with three left leaves and one right one preserved. The tip of the center leaf of the palmette touches a large round berry covered with a grille pattern. Below are the tips of two of a row of nautili, identical to the preceding. This fragment completes the design of no. 36 and might have belonged to the same vase. A similar frieze of horizontal palmettes and berries is known in the repertoryof Bargathes;152 with a rosette between palmettes, it is often associatedwith a gadroon decorationin a lower register during the Bargathesphase of the workshop and that which follows.'53During the final phase of the workshop it also appears in combination with the nautilus pattern.154 The small shield and nautiluspatterns,together with the tortile column, are considered by Oxe typical examples of the baroque tendency that, at the beginning of the reign of Tiberius, followed the classicism of the Augustan age.155 No. 38 (CE.1736; pl. 74). From Atrium Publicum I, Room 21, level I/II. Augustan-Claudian. Three non-joining fragments, one very large, one of medium size, and one very small, of an oval shell-shaped object resting on two small knobs. About three-quarterspreserved; missing is the bivalvularhinge. Fabric:gritty,hard, dark pinkish (10R5/4). Slip (only on upper face): thick, firm, glossy, dark red (10R4/7). Technique:The shell was shaped by hand, the bottom surface left rough and unslipped, the upper surface smoothed by hand, showing fingerprints.The knob feet are roughly shaped with incision underneath; their location holds the shell in a slightly sloping position. The wall is very thick at the center and above the figure, thinner below. Decoration:The border of shell is set off by a groove; its hinge was originallymarked by a line of indentations of which traces of two remain. pl. 11,12.

152 BARGATHES,

153 D/W, pl. 21, no. 217 (Bargathes);pl. 26, nos. 377, 378 (IV phase).

154

Ibid.,pl. 26, no. 375.

155

A. Oxe, "BarockeReliefkeramik ausTiberius'Zeit,"in

SchumacherFestschrift(Mainz 1930) 301-8.


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On the upper surface is the reclining figure of Venus in frontal view, nude to the hips, her legs covered by a mantle. Her bent left arm, resting on a square object, supported her head, now lost. Her right arm lies along her body, the forearm across her lap with the hand on her left hip. Her mantle runs under her body from the shoulder to cover her legs. A small winged Eros stands at the feet of the goddess, and a dove flies in the field under her. The same figure appearson a mold and on two fragmentsof kraters,156 attributedto Bargathes, in the Arezzo ArchaeologicalMuseum. These provide, in addition to the body, the head in profile, the neck adorned with a necklace, the end of the kline on which she reclines, and a small Eros identical to ours holding a mirror.On the Cosa shell the necklace was obliterated and the end of the kline made indistinct in order to transforma hetaera from a Symposium scene into a Venus in her shell. Though unrecorded among the figures of D/W XIII, it has been assigned to the same group.157

On the underside is a V-shaped graffito.

The Late Phase No. 39 (CE.1795; pls. 43, 75). From Atrium Building I, Room 22, level II. Tiberian-Claudian(see above pp. 57-58). Fragmentarychalice, about three-quarterspreserved. Fabric:fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/5). Slip: thick, firm, glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/7). Technique: moderatelygood, irregularsurface. Form:The chalice has a shallow hemisphericalbody with almost vertical, heavily molded rim and pedestal foot. It is similarto Conspectusform R 6, but without the quarter-roundelement separating the rim from the decorated field. Decoration:The decorated field is framed above by a line of closely spaced small round beads. Under them is the signatureCRESENTin a rectangularframe (CVArr1283 = OCK 1407.1), which corresponds to the cognomenCrescens, from two-part stamps;the signatureM.PEREN was on a separate stamp in a rectangularframe (CVArr1247 = OCK 1390.7). The main decoration consists of a series of figuresderived from the repertoryof Perennius and Rasiniusused as disiectamembra.Startingto the right of the signaturethese are: al: two female figures walking side by side to the right; the bust of one figure, half bust of the other, and feet of both are preserved.They belong to the cycle of "Dancingand Music-Making Figures," D/W XXI, 12, of Perennius.'58 bl: a male figure turned to the right between two trees, nude except for a chlamyshanging behind his back and leaning on a stick with his bent left leg resting on rocks. b3: a hunter dressed in chiton and chlamys charging with his spear to the left, from "Hunting Groups," D/W XVII, 5.159 To his left is the partly preserved fore part of a lion springing out of a floral calyx, D/W XVII, 20 a."60 b4: the molded base of round altar?

156 Inv. nos. 8385, 10773, 6091, 27-29.

BARGATHES,

50-51, nos.

158

D/W, 103-4.

159D/W, 92, fig. 11.

Ibid., 50-51; Porten Palange also connects the figurewith the Symposium groups. 157

160

Ibid., 93.

THE WORKSHOP OF PERENNIUS

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c5: a satyrdancingto the left,his nebrisfloatingbehindhisback,playingdoublepipes;he belongs to the repertoryof Rasinius.161 c6: the legs of a drapedfemalefigureturnedto the right,possiblyfromthe figureappearingon a fragmentin Tiibingensignedby Crescens,162 alsotakenfromthe repertoryof Rasinius. c7: an unidentifiednudemalefigureof muchsmallerproportionsthanthe precedingfigures. No. 40 (CE.1796;pls. 43, 76). FromAtriumBuildingI, Room22, levelII. Tiberian-Claudian (see above pp. 57-58).163 One-third preserved of the body with foot and beginning of rim of a chalice.

Fabric:fine, hard,light red (2.5YR5/6).Slip:firm,from silk-shinyto glossy,mattein spots, red (2.5YR4/8).Technique: good to mediocre,irregularsurface. Form:The shallowhemispherical body,pedestalfoot, and plainverticalrim,partiallypreserved, whichis offsetfromthebodyby a simpleprojectingmolding,correspondto a chaliceof Conspectus formR 9.3, datedlateTiberian-Claudian. Decoration: The decoratedfieldis boundedby linesof closelyspacedroundbosses.Underthe upperline arepreservedthe finallettersof a smallstampin a rectangular frame:[CRESE]NT(CVArr 1283 = OCK 1407.3).The signatureM. PERENfollowedon a separatestampin a rectangular frame(CVArr1247= OCK1390.8).TheCrescens'sfindingof the previouschalicein the samearea corroborates the completionof this stamp. A garlandof oliveleavesandpairsof oliveswithmanuscriptstemscoversthe field. A similardecorationwithsingleolivesappearsin the repertoryof Bargathes,164 but on the Cosa chalicebelongingto a laterstageof the Perenniusworkshopthe renditionis freer.A comparable stylisticdevelopmentcanbe seenin theolivebranchesdecoratingfunerary urnsdatedlateAugustan to Claudian.165

No. 41 (C71.170;pls.43, 76). Sporadic.Twoverysmallfragmentsfromupperbodywithbeginning of rim. Fabric:veryfine,verysoft,pinkish(2.5YR6/5).Slip:thin,worn,matte,darkred (2.5YR4/7).Technique:thickwall,poor condition. Decoration: Belowbeginningof verticalrimis partof a rectangular stampwithropeframepreserving thelastthreeletters:[SAT]VRN(CVArr1285= OCK1409.3).ThecognomenSaturninus preceded by M. PERENin a separatestamp(CVArr1247= OCK 1390.6). Belowthis arepreservedthreeof a line of smallcloselyspacedrosettes. No. 42 (pls.43, 76).Fromareaalongthenorthwallof theBasilica,surfacelevel.Twonon-joining fragmentsof centerandlowerbodywithbeginningof foot attachment, probablyfroma smallchalice. Fabric:fine, hard,pinkishyellow (5YR6/5).Slip:thick, firm,very glossy,darkred (2.5YR4/7). Technique: mediocre,mechanicalabrasions. Decoration: On the higherfragmentis preservedthe bustof a youngwoman,almostfrontal,with the lowerportionof the headturnedslightlyaside.Shewearsa chitonthatleavesherrightshoulder 161

STENICO,Rasinius, p. 57, no. 51.

162 OxE, Rhein, 104, PI. LV, 171; D/W, 208, pl. 24, no. 352; p. 114, XXVII,23.

163

CosA,Aco, 266, pl. 10,2.

I64BARGATHES, 139, no. 131 with bibliography.

165 For instance, from the funerary urn of Annia Cassia in Perugia, dated to the later Augustan age, to the so-called Altar of the Maenads in the National Museum of Rome of Tiberian-Claudiandate.For AnniaCassia'surn,see AMBROGI, Ghirlande,189-91, pl. 50,2; for the MaenadAltar:ByvanckQuarles von Ufford, "Le 'Canthare'd'Alesia,"BABesch35 (1960) 86, fig. 7.


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Fig. 48. Tiibingen,inv. no. 2550. Mold fragment attributedto the late phase of the workshopof M. Perennius.Figureof Hora (photo courtesyArchdeologisches Institut der Universitdt).

bare and a himation dropped from her left shoulder to her waist and wound around her left arm. She can be recognized as the Hora with phiale and kid from the famous Ateian sequence (see below p. 155, fig. 53), here without attributes. The bust of the same Hora emerging from a partiallypreserved row of three vine leaves can be seen on a mold fragmentin Taibingen'166(fig. 48), attributed by Stenico to the late phase of the workshop of M. Perennius.'161On a mold in the Arezzo Museum with the signature M.PEREN, used by Crescens, she emerges from rows of leaves interruptedby a chest.168 The hair falling along the nape onto the shoulder in a few wavy strands on the fragmentin Tilbingen can be seen also on the Cosa fragment. This shows, in contrast to the illogical short hair of the Ateian version of the type, closer adherence to the original model. On the lower fragmentare preservedtwo rows of vine leaves to the left and a squarewith rope frame and diagonal crossing inside to the right. The square with diagonal crossing can be identified as a version of the circularbase under the tripod decorated with winged sphinxes, which also The crossing chains of tiny leaves decorating this base became belongs to the cycle of the Horai.'169 the rope outline of the chest on the Cosa fragment.

TentativelyAttributedto the Workshopof Perennius No. 43 (CD.530; pls. 44, 77). From the areaalongthe northwestwall of the Basilica,surfacelevel. Two verylargefragments,one of rimwith upper section of body (abouttwo-thirdsof upper circumference preserved),the second of body with foot, and severalnon-joiningsmallfragmentsfrom a chalice. Fabric:fine, hard,pinkish (2.5YR6/5). Slip:thin, firm,silk-shiny,matte in spots, darkred (2.5YR4/7). Technique:good, thin wall. '66

MOEVS,Horai, 19, fig. 40; D/W, 233, pl. 38, no. 569.

167

STENICO, Liste, no. 1478.

168 Arezzo Archaeological Museum, inv. no. 2686. Another example of the same Hora emergingfrom leaves can be seen on a vase from Chur also signed M.PEREN:A. Hochuli-Gysel et al., Churin romischerZeit, II, A. AusgrabungenAreal

Markethallenplatz.B. HistorischeUberblick(Basel 1991) pl. 5,1, and on a fragment of a vase from Ostia with the same signature: M. Carta et al., Ostia. La tabernadell'Invidioso. Piazzaledelle Corporazioni,porticoOvest:saggisotto i mosaici = NSc32 suppl. (1978) 80, no. 6, fig. 76e. 169

MOEVS,Horai, 27-28, figs. 35, 51.


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Form:The chalicehas a deep curvingbody,projectingmoldedrimseparatedfromthe body by a formR 2.2, datedmiddle quarter-round element,andlow pedestalfoot. It is similarto Conspectus to lateAugustan. elementfromthe body;belowthesearean ovoloDecoration: Groovesseparatethe quarter-round and-tongueborderanda chainof tinyleaves. Theentiredecoratedfieldis coveredby anundulating vinefromwhichspringlargegrapeleaves, bunchesof grapes,andtendrils.Vine,stems,andtendrilsaremanuscript,andthe compositionis markedby graceandfreedom. The ovolo-and-tongue bordercorrespondsto BARGATHES type 1, used duringthe initialphase of production,'70 but the vine branchdecorationshowsa stylisticfreedomthatcontrastswith the morecontrolledorganizationof the samemotifin Bargathes.'71 Forthisreasonandbecauseof the ovolotype,the Cosachalicecanbe assignedto that"protobargateo" groupin whichmotifsbelonging to the Tigranusand Bargathesphasesof Perenniusminglewith similarmotifsused by other workshops.'72 Thevineis a commondecorativemotifon sarcophagiandfuneraryurnsof Augustan to Claudiandate.173The Cosavine,however,has a pictorialqualitythatplacesit closerto the same motifin the gold decorationof glassvessels,suchas a skyphosfromBegram.'74 No. 44 (pls.44, 77). FromAtriumBuildingI, Room 16, level I. Augustan-Claudian. Threenonjoiningfragmentsof rimfroma chalice. Fabric:fine,hard,darkpinkish(1OR5/6).Slip:firm,glossyred (10R4/8). Form:Tall,almostverticalrimwith simpleconvexmoldingat the lip froma chalicecloseto ConspectusformR 9. Decoration: Theplainouterfaceof the rimis decoratedwithan appliquedram'shead.175 Thistype of appliqueappearson the rimof a fragmentfroma cup of Conspectus form9 in the PisaniDossi collectionof the MuseoCivicoof Milan,signedby Saturninus,176 a phaseto whichourchalicemay alsobelong.

170

Porten Palange, in BARGATHES, 14-15, pl. 11,1.

171 BARGATHES, 137-38, nos. 127-30 with reference to other related examples; R. Knorr,Die Terra-SigillataGefdssevon Aislingen, Jahrbuchdes Histori'schenVereinsDillingen 25 (1912) no. 7, pp. 331-32, pl. I; D/W, pl. 22, nos. 277, 279, 282, 283, 287; on these and preceding examples the ovolo is almost alwaysof type 6.

172 Porten Palange, in BARGATHES, 15-16. Stylisticallycloser to the Cosa decoration is the vine on a fragment in the

Ashmolean Museum: BROWN,Ashmolean, no. 35, p. 15, pl. X attributedto Tigranus. 173

AMBROGI,Ghirlande,175-78.

Begram,no. 121, pp. 105-6, figs. 270-73.

174 HACKIN,

175 STENICO, Matricia placca,nos. 38-45, pp. 61-62, pl. XII; particularlyclose to our type is no. 40.

176

STENICO,Pisani-Dossi,no. 8, p. 924, pl. I.

8

* OtherMajorWorkshops

The Workshopof Cn. Ateius

No. 45 (pls. 44, 77). From the area along the northeast side of the Basilica, surface level. Two non-joining fragments,one of medium size, the other very small, from the body of a chalice. Fabric: fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/5). Slip: thin, worn on high relief, silk-shiny, dark red (10R4/7). Form:The shallow hemisphericalbody suggests a chalice with tall vertical rim of Conspectusform R9. Decoration:Above, grooves separate decorated field from a lost rim. The decorated field is bounded with a border of ovoli. To the left is the signature [ZO]ILI in tabulaansata (CVArr181 = OCK 2543.1),' in the middle is an indecipherablemotif, to the right a tree with crooked branches extending to the right bearing horizontalfoliage. On small fragmentis a bit of horizontal foliage. Cn. Ateius Zoilus is connected with the Ateius workshop located in Pisa.2 No. 46 (pls. 44, 78). From Atrium Building I, Room 5, surface level. Six non-joining fragmentsof body, two large (a, d), two of medium size (b, c), and two small (e, f), from a chalice. Fabric:slightly gritty,irregulartexture, very hard, thick wall, pinkish (2.5YR6/5). Slzp:very thin, firm, matte, dark red (10R4/6). Technique:mediocre, cursive relief, defective impression. Form:The shallow hemisphericalbody suggests a chalice with tall vertical rim of Conspectusform R 9. Grooves separatethe body from the lost rim. Decoration:The decorated field is bounded by a simple wreath of small leaves above, a broken ground line below. In the main decorated field five grotesque figures, two almost complete (a), a third from the hips down (b), and the last two from the knees down (c, e), are moving in opposite directions with dancing steps. Three are sufficientlypreserved to show that the figures were nude except for the pointed cap worn by one of them. a: A figuremoves to the left, brandishingtwo clubs;he has a skeletalbody with huge hangingphallus and an elongatedhead with big nose, thick lips, and protrudingchin. His partnermoves toward him with his head turned in the opposite direction, raisinghis bent left leg and arms,the palm of his left hand open, apparentlyfollowing the steps of a prescribedchoreography.His skeletal body, huge phallus, ovoid head with a long nose and thick lips belong to the same repertory. 1For an identicalstamp:LAVIZZARI PEDRAZZINI, Arretina,CM 527,1, p. 289, no. 7, pl. 100,4.

2 On the Pisa workshopsof Ateius:M. Paoletti, "Cn.Ateius a

Pisa," 319-31 and S. Menchelli, "Ateiuse gli altri,"333-50, in ATEJUS,fabbriche.

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These groupsof figures,possiblyoriginallythree,are separatedby tall amphorason square pedestals;threearedocumented(d,f, b). Theamphoracanbe restoredfromtwofragments(d,f) as ovoid,withshortwideneck,pedestalfoot, andhorizontalhandleson the shoulder.At mid-bodyof the best preservedamphorais the beginningof an almostillegiblesignaturein rudimentary tabula ansata:[CNIA ?, (CVArr145 = OCK274). To the left of this amphorais a roughlyrectangular object,evidentlycarriedon the shoulderof a thirdfigure,who is partiallypreservedon a chalice fromBregenzattributedto a provincialfactoryof Ateius.3 To a figureblowingan auloswhileplayinga scabellum,alsoappearingon thischalice,4belong the legs turnedto the left with the rightfoot on the scabellumpreservedon fragment(c). Figures of the sametype,alternating with amphoras,andan identicalsimplewreathdecoratea chaliceof formR 9.3, signedby Cn. AteiusfromLuni.5Grotesquefiguresof the sametype also Conspectus appearon a chalicefromHalternsignedCresti/Euhodi.6 It has been takenfor grantedsincethe firstdiscoveryof Arretinevasesby the workshopof PerenniusBargathesdecoratedwitha cycleof grotesquefiguresthatthesederivedfromthe Roman theaterof earlyimperialtimes,andthe designation"Atellan" hasbeengenerallyadopted.7It is also assumedthatthoughthe cyclewasintroducedby Bargathesandalsoadoptedby Ateius,the types usedby Ateiusaredifferent,8 anassumptionnot entirelyacceptable.Thedancingtypeof Ateiuson the Cosachalicecorrespondsto typeD/W XXIV,2 of Bargathes.9 Thisfigureis the linkbetween certaingrotesquetypesof Ateiusandthe scenesof cycleD/W XXIV,whichI haveidentifiedas a seriesof vignettesderivedfroman illustratededitionof the Silloiof Timonof Phlius(ca.320-230 B.C.),a parodyof the worldof scholarshipandphilosophyfamousin antiquity. The identificationis basedon extantfragmentsand informationderivedfromlatersources, mainlyDiogenesLaertius.10 The grotesquedanceradoptedby Ateiusappearshereandin another sceneof the samecycle(figs.49a-b) centeredon the figureof an Eselmensch, whichI haverecognizedas the illustrationof a mime,possiblyby Timonhimself,in whichthe Egyptianritualof the captureandsacrificeof the donkey-headed god Sethwasridiculed.11 Theexistenceof sucha mime in Hellenistictimescastsnew lighton the probablesourceof Apuleius'sGoldenAss.12 The presence of a grotesquedancerin this contextmaybe explainedby the introductioninto the comedy of Hellenistictimesof intermissionactsof vaudevillecharacter.Forthe typeof danceperformed by our figure,there are the numeroustitles of "ridiculousdances"mentionedby Athenaeusof Naukratis.13

A Hellenisticoriginmayalsobe postulatedfor the club-carrying figurewithpointedcap.On a Hellenisticreliefbowlof the so-calledHomericclassof the latethird-earlysecondcenturiesB.C., I Oxi, Rhein, no. 96, pp. 69-70, pl. XXI, 96 a; the object has been identified as an oar. The attributionto a provincial Ateiushas been challengedby a chemicalanalysisof the fabric of the vase, in favor of an Arretine source:HOFFMANN,Relations sigillees,397 and n. 38. The conclusion is unsatisfactory from a stylistic point of view. 4

OxE, Rhein, pl. XXI, 96 b-c.

I LAVIZZARI PEDRAZZINI, Arretina, CM 527, 4, p. 288, 3, pl. 99,1-5. Oberadenund Haltern, no. Ha 65, p. 181, pls. 29 and 64, also assigned,quite surprisinglyfrom a stylisticpoint of view, to the Arretine production of Ateius.

7 On this interpretation,see MOEVS,Caricature,1. 8

HOFFMANN,Relations sigilles, 397 and n. 35.

9BARGATHES, 64, type 2, fig. on p. 65 (above, left), pl. III; MOEVS,Caricature,29, figs. 34, 45, 46.

10 MOEVS,Caricature,1-18.

" Ibid., 18-27. 12

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Ath. Deipn. 14.629-30.

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two very similarfigures appear among others, all defined as kmnaidoi,in a scene supposedly from a mime, in which resemblancesto Apuleius'snarrativehave been recognized.'14 TENTATivELY ATTRIBUTEDTo THEWoRKsHop oF ATEius

No. 47 (pls. 44, 78). From areaalong the northeastwall of the Basilica,surfacelevel. Smallfragment from central body, probably of a chalice. Fabric:fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/5). Slip: firm, glossy, red (2.5YR4/8). Technique:very good. Decoration:Verybroad female face in frontalview. The flat, wide nose with large nostrils, the thick lower lip, the fixed gaze of the marked pupils, the wavy hair parted at the middle of the forehead 14 Apul. Met. 8.26 ff.; L. A. Moritz, Grain-Millsand Flour in ClassicalAntiquity(Oxford 1958) 12-17.


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Fig. 50. London, BritishMuseum. Campana plaque. PerseusbeheadingGorgon (from RHODEN/WINNEFELD, Terrakotten,pl. 34,2).

recall the head of the Gorgon between Perseus and Athena on Campanaplaques of early imperial date (fig. 50), many fragmentsof which were found associated with the Capitolium of Cosa."1 In Arretinepotterylargeheads insertedin a floraldecorationappearin the repertoryof Ateius.' Resemblingthe Cosa head are the female heads surroundedby a floral calyx and those surmounted by a palmette decorating a carinatedchalice from the dump of the Arezzo workshop of Ateius.'7 No. 48 (pls. 44, 78). From House of the Skeleton, unstratified.Large fragment of rim with beginning of body from a chalice. Fabric:gritty,hard,pinkish (2.5YR6/4). Slip:firm,matte, darkred (2.5YR4/7). Technique:mediocre, calcareous incrustationon surface. Form:The rim has a plain vertical element, finished with an everted lip and offset from the beginning of the hemisphericalbody by a convex molding. Decoration:Under the rim a border of ovoli, probably from a provincialworkshop of Atis.1

The Workshopof the Annii No. 49 (CE.1810; pls. 45, 79). From Atrium Building I, Room 5, level I, surface level. Three large fragments and several from medium to very small size from the body and rim of a chalice. Fabric:fine, very hard, pinkish yellow (5YR6/5). Slip: firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/8). Technique: excellent, mechanical abrasions. 15 L. Richardson, jr., "The Architectural Terracottas," in COSA II, 298-99 and 137, type 5, pl. LVIII,1-2, dated to the late first century B.C.; the illustrated examples from Cosa correspond to Borbein's second version of the type, which, along with the third version, shares features appearing on the Cosa fragment:BORBEIN, Campana,180-81, pls. 36,1-2; 37,1; RHODEN/WINNEFELD, Terrakotten,pl. 34,1-2. See also G. F. Carettoni, "Nuova serie di lastre fittili 'Campana'," BdA 58 (1973) 75-76, figs. 1-2, from the temple of Apollo on the Palatine. 16

STENICO, Liste, 298.

17 M. Scarpellini Testi and P. Zamarchi Grassi, "Lo scarico fabbriche,297, IV,4, pl. XXIV,1. aretinodi Ateius,"in ATEius, In n. 26 it is said that the motif is also present in Bargathes, to whom the Cosa vase may also be assigned.For the Medusa type in the version of Bargathes,see the fragmentin the Arezzo ArchaeologicalMuseum,inv.no. 5202, signed M.PEREN. BARGAT: HOFFMANN, Terrasigillata,89, pl. 91,4.

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Oxe, Rhein, 29 a, b, p. 51, pl. IX, chalice from Neuss attributed tentativelyto provincial Ateius.

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Form:Conical body with vertical rim composed of two plain concave elements, bounded by three convex moldings decorated with fine rouletting. The form bears some resemblance to the upper section of Conspectusform R 7 and to the rim of Conspectusform R 8. Decoration:The decorated field is framed at the top by a row of small bosses and a border of ovoli of type D/W fig.1, 17b, typical of the Annii workshop. In the main field poppy buds on long undulating stems alternatewith vertical motifs formed by superimposed pairs of double volutes of decreasing size that end in a tiny palmette. Between the two in a rectangularframe is the retrogradesignatureACHORISTVS/L.ANNI in two lines separatedby a row of small triangles.Under the name ACHORISTVS alone, on decoratedware, arelisted two entries (CVArr83 a = OCK 20) that probablycorrespondto the signature Acoristus (sic) read on two fragmentsin the Arezzo Museum;19a signature []CORISTV in one line with rectangularframe appears on another fragment.20In associationwith Annius only one stamp is recorded (OCK 165). The ascending volute motif, which survived in Late Italian Sigillata, appears horizontally in its earliest phase on a fragment signed by Eros C. Annii in the Arezzo Museum21and verticallyin a later phase of the same Annii workshop close to the date of our chalice.22In all these examples the motif rises from a calyx of acanthus,which may also have appeared in the missing lower zone of the Cosa chalice. No. 50 (CE.1738; pls. 45, 80). From Atrium Building I, Room 16, level I, Room 21, level II. Augustan-Claudian. Three non-joining fragments,one very large, one of medium size, and one small, of rim with upper section of decorated field of a chalice. Fabric:fine, very hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/5). Slip: thin, firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/8). Technique:good. Form: A high, plain, flaring element, offset from the hemispherical body by a molding, is surmounted by a rim that has two convex moldings separatedby a wide groove. The chalice is close to Conspectusform R 5.1. Decoration:To the plainflaringelementis appliquedthe reliefhead of a girl.Her roundforehead,wide nose, and thick lips give her chubby little face negroid characteristics.Her hair,partedin the middle, is gatheredinto knots above her ears and falls below them in short braids.Two thick, grooved hooks, risingfrom the top of her head, converge againsta knob with a cross impressedon it, simulatingthe handle of a vase. Tracesof the left side of the hair of anotherhead appearon anotherfragment. The relief-decoratedfield is bordered above by a row of small bosses and below by a chain of tiny leaves. Between the two in a rectangularframe is the signatureACH[OR]ISTVS. Of the central field decoration only a tiny daisy and an manuscriptstem are preserved. The high quality and individualisticcharacterof our head set it apartfrom the appliques usually found on Arretine pottery and connect it to small terracottaheads of Hellenistic date, more particularlyto genre types of Alexandrianorigin.23The particulardesign of the loop "handles"may also have an Egyptian origin. 19D/W, 145.

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CHASE, Loeb, no. 90, p. 73, pl. X.

21 Inv.no. 10192, STENICO, Arretinae tardo-italica,57, no. 9 b, pl. V; the same motif appears in D/W, 155, fig. 24,3.

STENICO, Arretinae tardo-italica,57, no. 9 c-e, pl. V.

E. Breccia,Terrecottefigurate grechee greco-egiziedelMuseo diAlessandria (Bergamo 1934) no. 132, pl. T.1 from Hadra, no. 125, pl. XIV,6 from Sciatbi;M. Bieber, The Sculptureof the Hellenistic Age (New York 1967) 95-96, fig. 374, in the Louvre, Alexandrianart of the third century B.C.

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No. 51 (pls. 45, 80). From AtriumBuilding I, Room 16, level I. Augustan-Claudian.Smallfragment of upper section of relief-decoratedfield. Fabric: fine, hard, thin wall, pinkish yellow (5YR6/4). Slip: firm, silk-shiny/glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/7). Technique:very good, some mechanical abrasions,accurate rendition of relief. Form. A fragment of rim from Atrium Building I, Room 22, level II of Tiberian date is technically very similar.The slightly everted lip, the grooves and moldings of the rim, and the beginning of a plain area below suggest a broad beaker with curving body of Conspectusform R 11, a form also suited to the thin walls of these fragments. Decoration:The decorated field is bordered by the usual row of small bosses and by a border of ovoli of the Annii type. Immediatelybelow it is the head of a young man turned in profileto the left. He has a classicalprofile and curly hair,possibly bound by a fillet. A fragmentin Mainz preserving traces of the Annii ovoli provides the muscular body of a standing warrior,turned three-quarters to the right, his left armlowered to steady a shield that stands behind him, his right lifted to hold a spear (?) in his hand.24The Polykleitananatomyof his body, renderedwith great accuracy,suggests a statuarymodel, a tendency observed in other examples from the workshop of the Annii.25

The Workshopof P Cornelius No. 52 (C66.17; pls. 46, 80). From Street M, level I, unstratified.Largefragmentof rim with beginning of wall from a chalice. Fabric:fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/5). Slip: thin, firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/7). Technique: very good. Form:The projectingverticalrim has a small plain concave element between largerconvex molding with rouletting above and small multiple moldings with rouletting below; it meets the truncated conical body at a sharp angle. The chalice is similarto Conspectusform R 7.1 and TRoso(e), dated late Augustan and later.26 Decoration:Of the decoration the following is preserved: A line of rosettes of TRoso type fig. 21, 177; below are a rope-decorated spike and leaf of TRoso te fig. 24, 216, turned diagonally to the right. Between rosettes and leaf is the signature P.CORNELIin smallletters and rectangularframe (CVArr478 = OCK 623.4). According to Troso, this type of signaturebelongs to the second phase of production.27 The garlandof alternatingleaves and spikes can be completed from a mold in the Archaeological Museum of Arezzo.28The same garlandand signatureare associated on a mold from the Gorga collection in the Rome National Museum.29 No. 53 (pls. 46, 81). From areaalong the northeastside of the Basilica,unstratified.Two non-joining fragmentsof body with rim, one very large, the other of medium size, from a chalice. D/W, 152, VIII, 2, Beil. 8,61; two more examples of the figures are cited here, on a fragmentfrom Tiubingen,pl. 36, 527 and CHASE,Loeb, 75-76, pl. XVI,102.

24

F. P. Porten Palange, "Addenda ai repertoridelle officine aretine degli Anni e di Cn Ateius," NumAntCl 19 (1990) 215-22, pls. I-V. 25

26

TROSO,59, pl. 73, 441.

27

Ibid., 22, fig. I C.

28

Inv. no. 4486. Ibid.,no. 113, p. 85, pl. 20.

Inv.no. 261846. VANNINI,MuseoNazionale,no. 207, pp. 195, 228 (other examples of the same motif cited here).

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Fabric:fine, hard, pinkish yellow (5YR6/5). Slip: thin, worn on relief areas, red (2.5YR4/8). Technique: cursive rendition of decoration. Form:Short hemisphericalbody, very tall vertical rim with multiple moldings at the lip offset from the body by a sharplydefined convex molding with rouletting;foot missing. The chalice is similar to Conspectusform R 9.2, grouped with vessels belonging to the latest phase in the production of the Italian relief ware. Decoration:Of the relief decoration are preserved:below the rim a line of rosettes with petals surrounding an empty center of a type common in the repertoryof Cornelius.30 Below the rosettes is, almost complete, a team of two harnessed horses galloping to the right, similarbut not identical to types appearingin the repertoryof Cornelius.3' To the right of the horses is the left side of a tabula ansata with hanging fillets and part of a circle that must have framedthe name of the owner of the workshop. Stampswith similarelaborate frames are known in the repertoryof Cornelius.32 A third fragment of the lower body of a hemisphericalchalice from the same area,technically identical to the preceding but with thinner wall and badly worn relief decoration, may belong to another,similarvase. One can barelymake out a part of a garlandof leaves attachedto a rosettelike the preceding;below this is the beginning of what appearsto be a large garlandof fruit and leaves. This seems to correspondto TROSO type fig. 23, 207; garlandsswingingbetween rosette attachments were also adopted by the same workshop.33 No. 54 (C68.650; pl. 81). From the House of the Skeleton, surface level. Very small fragment of body below convex molding of rim, probably from a chalice. Fabric:fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/5). Slip:firm, silk-shiny/glossy,red (2.5YR4/8). Decoration:To the left is the signatureP.CORNELI in small letters and rectangularframe (CVArr 478 = OCK 623.4), belonging to the second phase of this production.34 To the right of the signature are a double concentric circle and the beginning of a second, evidently the beginning of a series correspondingto TRoso,fig. 20, 158. Below the signatureis a rosette like TROSO, fig. 21, 180. No. 55 (pls. 46, 82). From the House of the Skeleton, surface level. Three non-joining fragments, one large, one of medium size, and one small, of upper body and rim of a chalice. Fabric:fine, hard,pinkishyellow (5YR6/5). Slip:thin, firm,silk-shinyinside, silk-shiny/matteoutside, dark red (2.5YR4/7). Technique:good, accurate execution of decoration. Form: The rim consists of a high convex flaring element with rouletting on lip, offset from the decoration by a sharp molding with rouletting and by a deep groove. The beginning of the wall indicates a hemisphericalbody. The form resembles the chalice TROSO, fig. 39, 387. Decoration:The decoration is bounded above by a row of small bosses. The main field is occupied by festoons of fruit and leaves like TROSO, fig. 23, 207; they are

30TROSO, fig. 21, 176; VANNINI, Museo Nazionale, pl. IV, 26; for rosettessimilarto ours but of more accuraterendition,see TROSO,no. 58, p. 80, pl. 10; VANNINI, Museo Nazionale, nos. 264-65, pp. 205, 262-63; PORTENPALANGE,Antiquarium, no. 84, pp. 58-59, pl. XVII (signed); STENICO,Pisani-Dossi, no. 152, p. 455, pl. VII (signed). 31

TROSO, fig. 12, 82 A; VANNINI, Museo Nazionale, pl.

XXI,230. The horses were likely yoked to a chariot driven by Erotes, TRoso, nos. 234-38, p. 98, pl. 39. 32

TRoso, no. 229, p. 97, pl. 38, no. 232, p. 98, pl. 39.

33 Ibid., no.

322, p. 108, pl. 54.

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attached to horse protomes held by a band, TROSO, fig. 13, 90, and falls of draperyknotted to the attachment,TRoso,fig. 18, 143. No. 56 (C71.39; pls. 47, 82). From habitation area,unstratified.Verylarge fragmentof body from attachmentof foot to beginning of rim of a chalice. Fabric:fine, very hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/4). Slip: thin, firm, silk-shiny/matte, dark red (1OR4/7). Technique:good, ratherthin wall with metallic character. Form:The shallow hemisphericalbody, offset from the high, plain, flaring rim by rouletted ridge bounded by grooves and the type of foot attachment suggest a chalice with tall vertical rim on pedestal foot of Conspectusform R 9, with possible similarityto TROSO fig. 36, 284. Decoration:The decorated field, bordered above by a line of tiny leaves of a type common in the repertoryof Cornelius, is covered by a series of shields with double outline, curving upward, corresponding to Troso, fig. 27, 246.35 No. 57 (C70.556; pls. 47, 82). From habitation area, unstratified.Verylarge fragmentof body. Fabric:fine, very hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/4). Slip:thin, flaky,silk-shiny/matte,dark red (2.5YR4/7). Technique:mediocre, poor rendition of decoration. Form:The shallow, slightly flaringhemisphericalbody with a groove at upper extremity originally offsetting the rim suggests a chalice with hemisphericalbody, pedestal foot, and tall, almostvertical rim of Conspectusform R 9.3, dated late Tiberian-Claudian. Decoration:The decorated field is framed above by a line of double concentric circles, TROSO, fig. 20, 160, which includes one rosette of bead petals, TRoso,fig. 21, 177; below, by a line of rosettes similarto no. 52. The central area is occupied by a chain of large lozenges formed by pairs of ropes. At the points of intersection are: daisies, TROSO, fig. 21, 180, above; rosettes, TROSO, fig. 21, 175, in the middle; double concentric circlets, TROSO, fig. 20, 160, below. Inside the lozenges and triangularspaces above and below arelarge featheryleaves, TROSO, fig. 25, 237. This type of decorais tion very common in the repertoryof Cornelius.36 No. 58 (CE.1703;pls. 47, 83). From AtriumBuildingI, Room 11, level I. Augustan-Claudian.Small skyphos assembled from many fragments, about two-thirds preserved. Fabric:fine, very hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/5). Slip: firm, silk-shiny,red (2.5YR4/8); Technique:good, mediocre renderingof decoration. Form:The skyphos has an ovoid body, slightly carinatedat the bottom, a high, plain rim separated by grooves and ridges from the decorated field, two partiallypreserved loop handles with thumb rests connected to the body by two volutes apiece, and a pedestal foot. It corresponds to form D/W, VII and TROSO, fig. 42, 75-217. The slightly carinatedform 217 belongs to the second phase of operation of the workshop and is usually decorated with figures connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.37Of the double palmettes originallydecoratingthe thumb rests (TRoso,fig. 42, 75-14 1), only one is preserved. A line of pearls framed by grooves decorates the outer faces of the loops. Decoration:The decoration is bound above by a line of rosettes, TROSO, fig. 21, 177; below, by a line of double concentric small circles, TROSO, fig. 20, 158. Each side of the centralfield is occupied " For a similarexample, see ibid., no. 395, p. 116, pl. 66. 36

Ibid., 53, pls. 68-69, nos. 408-18.

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Ibid., 59.

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by the sameseriesof figures,separatedat the centerby an identicalmotif (one entirely,the other almost entirely preserved): a knotted lion skin with big hanging paws, TROSO, fig. 12, 86 A, resting on an inverted knotted club, TRoso, fig. 15, 105, inside a V-shaped floral motif. The partially preserved figures can be completed from an identical decoration on a skyphos from Besancon in the R6misch-GermanischesZentralmuseumof Mainz.38 al: On the left a draped female figure,turned to the rightwith her right armextended horizontally, sits on a cista with a snake coiled around it. The figure, preserved from the waist down, had her head covered by her mantle, TROSO, fig. 2,4. a2: To her right is preserved a hand holding the end of a torch originallybelonging to a smaller female figure dressed in a belted chiton, who stands full front behind the seated lady,her head turned to the right, and holds two torches, TRoso, fig. 2,5. a3: To the right of the central motif is preserved the left side of a man facing right (see also b3), dressedin high belted tunic, high boots with a mantlewrapped aroundhis hips, TRoso,fig. 4,2 1. Behind his head is the point of a long grooved spear that originallyrested on his left shoulder and was held in his left hand. In his right hand he was supposedly holding a vase.39Missing on the Cosa skyphos is the signatureP.CORNELI,which in the Mainz example appearsat the right of this figure, in small letters and rectangularframe, TRoso, fig. 1 C. b 1: On the left are traces of the seated figure. b2: The standing female figure is preserved above the waist. b3: To the right of the central motif the male figure is preserved above the hips. On the Mainz skyphos to the right of the seated figure is a candelabrum;on our example both corresponding areas are missing. Variations,additions, and different uses of this basic group of figures appear in several other examples.40 In spite of the defective flattened relief, the high artisticlevel of the original model is still discernible in the composition of the female group and in the elegant design of the drapery. The two female figureshave been recognized as Demetra and Kore and connected with the cult group in the Eleusinion in Athens.41The male figure, also connected with the Eleusinianmysteries, has been identified as Hymenaeus or lakchos.42The central motif may allude to the initiation of Herakles into the Eleusinian mysteries. TENTATIVELY ATTRIBUTEDTO THE WORKSHOPOF CORNELIUS

No. 59 (pls. 47, 83). From along the northeastside of the Basilica,surfacelevel. Verysmallfragment of upper body with beginning of rim. Fabric:fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6.5/6). Slip:thin, firm,silk-shiny/matte,red (2.5YR4/8). Technique: mechanical abrasionson high relief. Decoration:Under high protruding molding separating the rim from the body is an ovolo-andtongue border under a row of small bosses. The ovolo-and-tongue corresponds to TROsotype no. 148 of Publius Cornelius.43

H. Klumbach, "Materialenzu P. Cornelius,"JRGZM22 (1975) 48-50, fig.1, pl. 12,1.

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41D/W, 164,1,3 andn. 1.

39

Ibid.,48.

For the firstidentification,see Dragendorff,ibid., 165, III, 18; for the second, Watzinger,ibid., 165, n. 2.

40

See ibid., 50-61, figs. 2-6, pls. 12-15; TROSO, 31-32.

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No. 60 (CE.1706; pls. 48, 84). From Atrium Building I, Room 11, level I. Augustan-Claudian. Very small fragmentof upper body with beginning of rim. Fabric:fine, very hard, pinkish yellow (5YR6/5). Slip: thin, firm, silk-shiny, dark red (10R4/7). Technique:good, very thin wall. Form:Possibly from a broad beaker of Conspectusform R 11. Rim offset from the decorated field by two grooves. Decoration:The decorated field is bordered by a chain of tiny drop-shaped leaves. Below them in rectangularframe is the signature [V]IBIEN[VS] (CVArr2288 = OCK 2367.1).' Of the central decoration is preserved the tip of an acanthusleaf, probably in a lozenge-shaped panel.2 No. 61 (CE.1705; pls. 48, 84). From Atrium Building I, Room 11, level I. Augustan-Claudian. Conical beaker of "Aco" type, about two-thirds preserved, rim missing. Slip: firm, glossy, dark red (2.5YR4/7). Form:The conical body with almost straightwall and flat base does not have a parallelin Conspectus but is similarto D/W XIII. Decoration:The decorated field, framed above the base by a row of small bosses, is filled with a series of connected lozenge-shaped panels with double, deeply marked frames,3with bosses at all corners and the addition of fern leaves at the upper corners.4Inside the triangles at the base are large rosettes with round and pointed petals;5inside the upper triangles are palmettes and small flowers with an acanthus calyx on long undulating manuscriptstems.6

The Workshopof L. PomponiusPisanus No. 62 (C68.575; pl. 85). From the west slope of the Arx, surface level. Almost complete beaker. Fabric:fine, hard, pinkish; slip: firm, silk-shiny,red, mottled brownish toward the base. 1 3 This type of decoration corresponds to Porten Palange The same signature is entirely preserved on a beaker of Conspectusform 11 from the Roman Forum and on a mold group IV, ibid., 206-8, pls. IV-V,16-22. fragment in the Arezzo Museum, inv. no. 3475, PORTEN PALANGE,Vibienus,196, pl. I,A; 204, pl. 111,10. 4 This leaf, which has a beaded centralvein, is said by Porten Palange to be the key motif in the Vibienus repertory;ibid., 2 It corresponds to the motif PORTENPALANGE,Vibienus,pl. 206, 208. VI,15, which appears on vases of group IV, mostly beakers 5 Ibid., pl. VI,719. of Conspectus form 11, decorated with lozenge-shaped panels; see fragmentinv. no. 14292, in the Arezzo Museum, 6 Ibid.,pl. VI,17,18. 206, pl. IV,13.

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Form:Broadbeakerwith diskbase,curvingbody,andverticalrimwith evertedlip of Conspectus formR 11. The plainrimis separatedfromthe decoratedfieldby two grooves. Decoration: The decoratedfieldis framedby a borderof ovoli and a chainof smalltriangles.It is dividedintofourpanelsof acanthusscrollsandtendrilsthatspringfromthe centerof an acanthus calyxandendin palmettes.Twoflutedfusiformelementswithvolutesatthe top,flankedby oblique rodswith spirals,and two humanfiguresformthe centralaxes. One of the figuresstandsto the right,hisleft armextended,betweensupportsholdingfruit;the othermovesto theleft.Birdsperch on the scrolls.Betweenthe chainof trianglesanda scrollon the left, in largeirregularlettersis the freehandinscription:BIT[V]S(CVArr1367= OCK 1504),a slaveof (L.)PomponiusPisanus. For a similardecoration,see a moldfragmentattributedto L. PomponiusPisanus.7 TENTATIVELY ATTRIBUTEDTO THE WORKSHOPOFL. POMPONIUSPISANUS

No. 63 (pls.48, 85).FromAtriumBuildingI, Room22,levelI (butpossiblyrandomsurfacematerial). LateClaudian-Neronian. Medium-sized fragmentof lowerbody,probablyfroma broadbeaker. Fabric:fine,hard,pinkish(2.5YR5/6).Slip:firm,silk-shiny,darkred (2.5YR4/6).Technique: very good. Form:The slightcarinationunderthe beginningof a curvingbodysuggestsa beakerof Conspectus formR 11. Decoration: The plainareaabovethe foot is separatedfromthe decoratedfieldby a chainof small triangles.Of the decoratedfield arepreservedonly the volutesand pointedtip with spiralsthat mightbe froma fusiformelement,similarto the precedingbut diagonallyinverted. No. 64 (pls.48, 85). Fromthe Houseof the Skeleton,unstratified. Smallfragmentfromthe upper bodyof a chalice. Fabric:fine,hard,pinkish(10R5/6).Slip:firm,silk-shiny,red (10R4/8).Technique: verygood. Form:A groovesetsthe decoratedfieldoff fromthe lost rim. Decoration: Thedecoratedfieldis borderedaboveby a rowof bosses,eachwitha centraldot. Belowthisis a garlandof horizontalclustersof fiveoliveleavesboundtogetherat the baseby a seed pod. One clusteris almostentirelypreserved;of a secondthereare only the tips of three leaves.On eachside of the centralleaf is an oliveon a manuscriptstem,brokenin places.One is entirelypreserved,of the otheronlythe upperoutline. A similargarlandof three-leafclustersandoliveson brokenstemson a moldin the Ashmolean Museumhas been attributedto L. PomponiusPisanusby Stenico.8A smallgarlandof three-leaf clusters,in the Antiquarium of the NationalMuseumof Rome,has alsobeen assignedto the same workshop.9

The Workshopof C. Tellius No. 65 (pls. 48, 85). From the Dump at the northwest corner of the Basilica.Augustan. Two nonjoining fragmentsof body with rim from a chalice. 7 PORTENPALANGE,Antiquarium,no. 81, p. 57, pl. XVI. 8

BROWN, Ashmolean, no. 79, p. 28, pl. XIX.

9 PORTEN PALANGE, Antiquarium, no. 81, p. 57, pl. XVI. In n.

185 are mentioned several fragments decorated with threeleaf clustersand olives on incised stems among the fragments in the Arezzo Museum signed or attributedby Stenico to L. Pomponius Pisanus.

THEMINORWORKSHOPS

151

Fabric: fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/5). Slip: firm, silk-shiny, dark red (2.5YR4/7). Technique: good. Form:The tall, slightly flaringrim, decorated at the lip by a band of rouletting and two grooves, is offset from the hemispherical body by a sharp convex molding between grooves. These features recall Conspectusform R 9, but no close comparandumcould be found. Decoration:On the plain rim is preserved half of an appliqued comic mask wearing a wreath that forms two bushy clusters on the temples and has hanging ends. On the decorated field, bordered by a row of small bosses and a border of ovoli, are preserved a few parts of a floral decoration, including scrolls, tendrils, and a half calyx of small acanthusleaves; the forequartersof an animal, possibly a hound, emerges from this. The same mask appearson a fragmentin Tilbingen signed by Tellius;10the ovoli correspondto a type used in his workshop.1'The animalprotome emergingfrom a floral calyx and surroundedby scrolls is a motif that, though rare, appearson a signed fragmentof mold in Munich.12 No. 66 (pls. 48, 86). From the House of the Skeleton, surfacelevel. Medium-sized fragmentof upper body with beginning of rim from a chalice. Fabric:fine, hard, pinkish yellow (5YR6/5). Slip:firminside, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/7), almost completely eroded on relief decoration. Form: The convex molding with rouletting and the slightly concave plain band below it, which separate the rim from the hemispherical body with a single undivided zone of relief decoration, suggest a chalice with finely molded vertical rim of Conspectusform R 7.2. Decoration:The decorated field is bordered above by a row of ovoli of the type used in the workshop of Tellius. Below this can be deciphered the outline of a thick garland of fruit and leaves. The same decoration is preserved on a mold fragment in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts signed by Tellius.13

10 D/W,

156, pI. 32, no. 496.

" Ibid., Beil. 8,71, Beil. 9,75 in Munich, signed by Tellius; CHASE, Boston, no. 119, p. 103, pl. XXVIII, signed by Tellius.

12 Inv. no. 5981.32, 13 Inv. no.

D/W, 157.

08.522, CHASE,Boston, p1.XXXVI.

10

* Not Attributedto a SpecificWorkshop

67 (CE.1818; pls. 49, 86). From Atrium Building I, Rooms 5, 16, level I; Room 22, level II. Augustan-Claudian. Eight non-joining fragmentsof body with rim, one large (b), the others from small to very small (a, c-f), from a chalice. One small fragmentof ovolo is from Room 16, the other fragmentsfrom Room 5; the large fragmentis composed of three joining fragments,two from Room 5 and one from Room 22.1 Fabric:fine, hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/5). Slip: thin, firm, silk-shiny,dark red (10R4/7). Technique: very good, thin wall. Form:The form can be reconstructedas a deep curvingbody and molded hanging rim. Between the two is a quarter-roundelement of undeterminedheight, offset from the body by two deep grooves. It is similarto Conspectusform R 2.3, dated middle to late Augustan and said to be typical of the finds of Haltern. Decoration.The decorated field is bordered by a row of halved beads and a row of large ovoli with double outline. In the central field female figures and large amphoras were linked by garlands of fruit and leaves. Of the figures the following elements are preserved: a: head of a young woman turned in profile to the right. She has a long pointed nose, a small mouth, and a large eye. Her "melon" hairdo is finished with a large ribbon fastened behind the nape of her neck.2 b: torso of a young woman turned to the right with her right arm bent. She wears a long-sleeved chiton that leaves her right shoulder bare. Her back at the waist is covered by a garlandof fruit and leaves partlyflattened by defective casting.3 c: fall of drapery.Above to the right is the beginning of a garlandof fruit and leaves, identical to the fragmentsconnected with the vases.4 Of the vases the following elements are preserved: d: central body of a large ovoid amphorawith beginning of neck. It is decorated with a band of running spirals between two zones of elongated tongue pattern. Above to the right is a small portion of a garlandwith the end of a ribbon fastening.5 e: part of the wide, short neck with ovolo-decoratedrim and double volute handles from a second amphoralike the preceding. Perched on the rim is a bird with its head turned back. Attached to the upper volute of the handle is the beginning of a garlandwith a ribbon.6

No.

I

1

MOEVS,Horai, 1, fig. 1.

4Ibid.,fig.7b.

2

Ibid., fig. 4.

5 Ibid., fig. 10 b.

' Ibid.,fig. 7 a.

6 Ibid., fig. 10 a.

153

154


4,

Fig. 51. London, BritishMuseum, WaltersCat. L 54. Chalicefrom Capuasigned by Ateius. Horai (photo courtesyBritishMuseum). ?Copyrightthe Trusteesof The BritishMuseum. Fig. 52. Florence,

Archaeological

Museum,

nv. no.

96302. Chalicehy the workshopof Ateius. Hora with a lapful offruit.

part of a garland with hanging ribbon. On the left, barely visible, is the curving outline of another amphora.7 These decorative elements belong to the "cycle of the Horai," best documented on a chalice from Capua in the British Museum signed by Cn. Ateius (fig. 51) 8 This, along with a dozen vases and some large fragments from the Arezzo workshop of Ateius, previously unpublished, have been the point of departure for my study of the iconography of the cycle and its historical, literary, and figurative sources. All references are to this study, of which only a brief summary will be given here.9 The group of the four Seasons on Arretinepottery ultimatelyderives from an illustrationin the archivaldocuments recordinga historicalevent that took place in Alexandriaprobablyin the winter 275-274 B.C.: the Grand Procession of Ptolemy Philadelphus.It is described in the fifth book of the Deipnosophistaeof Athenaeus of Naukratis,who in turn resorted to a description of Alexandriaof Hellenistic date. The illustrationcorrespondsto the descriptionof the personificationsof time, Penteteris,the pentetericfestivalholding a crown and a palmbranch,and the Horai each carryingher own attributes,who march preceded by Eniautos, the Year,at the head of the procession of Dionysos.10 To the three original Seasons of the Egyptian calendar,who carryattributesof the major resources f:

7Ibid., fig. 10 c. On a ninth fragmentfrom the same area of

AtriumBuildingI, technicallyidentical to the preceding, is a gnarled tree; on its possible connection with the decoration of the others, see ibid., 4, fig. 10,4. 8WALTERS, B.M. Pottery,L 54,

p. 20, pl. VI; OxE2,Rhein, no. 132 a-g, pp. 78-80, pls. XXXII-XXXIV.

9 MOEVS,Horai, 1-36; MOEVS,EphemeralAlexandria, 129-30.

'0 Deipn. 5.198 A-B. For a recent evaluationof the proposed dates of the Procession, see D. J. Thompson, "Philadelphus' Procession: Dynastic Power in a MediterraneanContext," in Politics,Administrationand Societyin the Hellenistic and Roman World,ed. L. Mooren (Leuven 2000) 381-88.

TO A SPECIFICWORKSHOP NOT ATTRIBUTED

155

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I

,

Fig. 53. Florence,ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 96303. Chalicehy the workshopof Ateius. Hora with phiale and kid.

Fig. 54. Florence,ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 96306. Chaliceby the workshopof Ateius. HuntressHora.

of the country,a lapful of fruit (fig. 52),11phiale and kid (fig 53) 12 and small game suspended from a lagobolon and shoat (fig 54),13 a fourth Season was added by Ateius. He transformedPenteteris into Spring by replacingher originalpalm branchwith a big flower (fig. 55);14 the original attribute is fortunatelypreservedon a mold by Bargathesin the Arezzo Museum (fig. 56).15 The head and torso on the Cosa chalice belong to two figuresof the Hora with a lapful of fruit, the draperyto the Hora with lagobolonand shoat. A small amphoraon a pedestal with tongue-pattern decorationon the lower body is also present in the repertoryof Ateius.16 The accuraterendition of details on the Cosa fragments is evident in the head of the Hora with a lapful of fruit, who is closer to the qualityof an original stamp of the type in the British Museum than the corresponding versions of Ateius (fig. 57).17 The accuracy of the Cosa head has allowed precise comparisons in the type of hairstyleand facial featureswith portraitsof the earlyPtolemaic queens, confirmingthe Alexandrian origin of the iconography.18 The paternityof the Cosa chalice cannot be easily established.19The type of ovolo is the same 17WALTERS, Horai, fig. 18. B.M. Pottery,L 91, p. 26; MOEVS, Paola Porten Palange doubts the attributionof this stamp to Ateius and suggests that it may belong to the same workshop that produced the Cosa chalice (letter of 9-2-1990).

11MOEVS, Horai, fig.5, pl. II a. 12 Ibid.,fig.6, pl. I a. 13 Ibid.,fig.8, pl. I b. 14

15 Inv.no. 2725;ibid.,fig. 14.;BARGATHES, p. 16

18MOEVS,Horai, 13-15, figs. 26-32; ead., EphemeralAlexandria, 129, figs. 9-12.

Ibid., fig. 3, pls. I c, II b.

MOEVS,

Horai, fig.50, pl. II b.

119,no. 105.

19My attributionto the workshopof Perennius(MOEVS,Horai, 5-7) hasbeen challengedby PaolaPortenPalange,who sawinsteadaffinitieswith the productsof C. Cispius,L. AvilliusSura, and Publius:MOEVS, EphemeralAlexandria,144, n. 25.

156


Fig. 55. Florence,ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 96232. Chalicesigned by Ateius. Penteteris.

i

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Fig. 56. Arezzo,ArchaeologicalMuseum, inv. no. 2725. Fragmentof mold signed by Bargathes.Hora with palm branch (Penteteris)(photo courtesySoprintendenza Archeologicaper la Toscana-Firenze).

usedby L. AvilliusSura.20 Theamphorais a typicalmotifof theworkshopof C. CiSpiUS;2'the same can be said for the garlandswith ribbon bands.2 The motif of the bird looking back was used by too many Arretineworkshops to be of use here. In the present state of our knowledge attribution to an unspecified minor workshop seems advisable. 20

D/W, 161, 227, pl. 33, no. 506; A. Stenico, "Nuovi frammenti di L. AvilliusSuranel Museo Archeologico di Arezzo," BuilCom75 (1953-55) 24, fig. 2.

21 D/W, 169, Beil. 11,98 and STENICO, Cispius, no. 13, p.

176, pl. I. 22

STENICO, Cispius,no. 12, p. 176, pl. I, no. 57, p. 196, pl. V.

NOT ATTRIBUTED TO A SPECIFICWORKSHOP

157

Fig. 57. London, BritishMuseum, WaltersCat. L 91. Stampby the workshopof Ateius. Hora with a lapful offruit (photo courtesy BritishMuseum).? Copyrightthe Trusteesof The BritishMuseum.

No. 68 (pls. 49, 87). From area outside the southwest corner of the Basilica, unstratified. Large fragmentof central body, probably from a chalice. Fabric:fine, very hard, very thin wall, pinkish (2.5YR6/5). Slip:very thin, very firm, silk-shiny,dark red (10R4.5/6). Technique:wall of metallic quality,decoration of high stylistic quality,but casting partly defective. Decoration:In the main field is a maenadpreservedfrom head to knee, except for her rightforearm.23 She dances to the left, her torso frontal, her head thrown back in profile, her right arm extended, possibly to hold a thyrsus,her left arm lowered to hold a cymbal. Her hair is so faintly traced as to make her head appearbald; from her nape a lock of hair covers her left shoulder. She wears a light peplos with long, high, belted kolpos. The irregularsurface of her garment on her breasts and hips may represent an animal skin, here erased but still present in a version of the type close to ours.24 To her left is the right side of a rectangularstamp with double frame and two corner double circles25but no trace of letters; a ribbon flutters in loops from it. A chain of ivy leaves hangs down from the right to connect with the stamp, passing behind the figure. Another leaf is partly preserved at the upper right corner of the fragment. Our figure belongs to the series of dancing maenads of the Dionysian thiasoswhose many neoclassicalreproductionshave been referredto an originalof the last decade of the fifth centuryB.C.,by Callimachus.More precisely,the Cosa maenad appearsto be related to the type HAUSER31, whose 23

MOEVS, Kalathos,28, 30, fig. 49.

land Museum of Art; MOEVS, Kalathos,28-29, figs. 46-47, nn. 141, 142.

24

Maenads on a mold in the Archaeological Museum of Arezzo and on a silver beaker from Vicarello in the Cleve-

25

It is similarto type CVArr,no. 63, p. 578, pl. IX and OCK, no. 390, p. 531.

158


Fig. 58. Haslemere, Whittal coll., formerly Lansdowne. Marblebase with thiasos(from G. E. Rizzo, Thiasos[Rome 1934] fig. 11).

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a

.

ij

XW JfsSX

\X

derivation from the original cycle remains unchallenged (fig. 58).2 The more sedate movement, the less agitated garment, and the peculiar hairdo are features shared by the two figures. Although certainbasic similaritiescan be detected with the maenadsof Rasiniusand Rasinius-Memmius,2the Cosa type points to another model, possibly closer to the prototype, and to a different workshop. This impressionis also supported by the subsidiarymotif of the chain of ivy leaves. A border of such leaves above the partly preserved figure of a maenad identical to ours is preserved on a fragment of mold in the Arezzo Archaeological Museum attributed to PubliUS.28The same chain of leaves decorates the rim of another fragment signed by Heraklida/Publi in the same museum.2 Only the hemispherical cup of a cymbal is preserved, along with the suspension ring at the center,30visible between the beautiful long fingers of the maenad. Her action and instrument agree with the description of Athenaeus, who says that krembalawere mostly used by women for the accompanimentof dancing and, when played with the fingers,produced a high, clear sound."'The complete instrument, identical to the Cosa example down to the border indentations, is preserved 26MOEVS,Kalathos,30, fig. 50. For further informationand related bibliography,see my iconographic and stylistic examinationof the dancer on the Palagi kalathos in the Museo Civico of Bologna: ibid., 26,28-30. 27 See maenadon a mold in the Antiquariumof the National

Museum of Rome, PORTENPALANGE,Antiquarium,no. 73, pp. 53-54, pl. XIV, attributed to the worshop of RasiniusMemmius.

Palange. 29

Also without inventory number, again from the files of Paola Porten Palange.

30

For a comparison, see examples in the British Museum dated to the fifth-fourth century B.C.; T. J. Mathiesen, Apollo's Lyre (Lincoln and London 1999) 170-7 1, fig. 15. 31

28

Without inventorynumber,from the files of Paola Porten

Deipnosophistae,14.34-38.


159

attributedby PaolaPortenPalangeto a on a mold fragmentin the NationalMuseumof Rome,32 minorworkshop,possiblythatof C. Cispiusor L. PomponiusPisanus.33 In thepresentstageof ourknowledgeit seemswiseto assignthefragmentto a minorworkshop, possiblythatbelongingto Publius. preserved No. 69 (pls.49, 87).Fromcrossingof Streets5 andM, surfacelevel.Aboutthree-quarters of upperbodywithrimfroma chalice. Fabric:fine,hard,pinkish(2.5YR6/6).Slip:thin,firm,silkshiny/matte,red (2.5YR4/8).Technique: good. Form:The tallverticalrimhas a plainouterfaceand a convexmoldingat lip decoratedwith roubodyby a moldingwith roulettinganda groove;a form letting;it is offsetfromthe hemispherical R 9.3 is suggested. like Conspectus Decoration: The decoratedfieldis borderedaboveby a rowof ovoli. On the mainfieldarelargehorizontalpalmettesjoinedat theirbases,witha multipetalrosette at the point of connection.The palmetteshave a lanceolatecentralleaf and five sickleleaveson eachside.Betweenthe joinedpalmetteshangsinglesmallpalmettes. Identicaljoinedpalmettesappearon the upperdecoratedzone on a fragmentof a chalice, formR 7.1, in Tiibingen.34 It wasunassignedby Dragendorffandlaterby probablyof Conspectus withthe decorationon certainvasesby RasinStenico,who, however,recognizeda greatsimilarity froma moldin iUS.35 Smallpalmettessimilarto ours,but standing,can be seen on two fragments the NationalMuseumof Romeof uncertainattribution.36 Finallythe type of ovolo on the Cosachalice,with doubleoutline,does not seemto find satisfactorycomparandain anyof the knownArretineworkshopsbut is verycommonin Puteolan decoratedsigillata. No. 70 (pls.49, 87). Fromthe southwestareaof the Forum,surfacelevel.One smallfragmentof centralbody,probablyfroma chalice. Fabric:slightlygritty,veryhard,pinkishyellow(5YR7/4).Slip:verythin,firm,matte,red(2.5YR5/7). unusual. Technique: At centeris a palmateleaf with roundedseed pod at base,risingon a high stem;on Decoration: eachside of it is a largemultipetalrosetteformedof two concentricrosettes,one almostcomplete. Beneatheach rosetteis a long leaf. All these elementsare boundedby connectedcircularlines, veryaccuratelydrawn. Thoughsome genericresemblanceto florallydecoratedvasesof Rasiniusand M. Perennius Tigranusmaybe suggested,identicalmotivescannotbe foundherenorcana closestylisticaffinity. Someaffinitymaybe detectedbetweenourfragmentandthe prolificproductionof floraldecoration in the workshopof Ancharius.37 32 VANNINI,Museo Nazionale, no. 171, p. 141, fig. 162, at-

36

33 PORTENPALANGE,Review of Vannini 70.

VANNINI, Museo Nazionale, no. 135, pp. 127, 131. Paola Porten Palangeassignsnos. 132-39 of this catalogueeitherto the firstphase of M. PerenniusBargathesand P. Corneliusor to Cn. Ateius: PORTEN PALANGE, Review Vannini,70.

34 D/W,

37 C. Sforzini, "Vasi'aretini'in area falisca:l'officina di Va-

tributed here to the workshop of Rasinius.

235, pl. 27, no. 585.

35STENICO, Liste, no. 1288. The palmettesarein fact identical to STENICO,Rasinius, 68, no. 289.

sanello," in La civiltd del Falisci; Civita di Castellana-Forte Sangallo, 28-31 maggio 1987 (Florence 1990) 266-68, pls. V-VII; she dates this workshop to the period 30 B.C.-A.D. 15; ibid., 270.

160


No. 71 (pls. 49, 87). From AtriumBuilding I, Room 22, level I. Mostly late Claudian-Neronian (see above pp. 72-73). Large fragment of central body from a small cup. Fabric:fine, very hard, pinkish yellow (5YR6/6). Slip: thin, firm, silk-shiny/matte, red (10R4/7). Technique:mediocre, very thin wall, wheel marks on inner surface, abrasionson high relief. Form:Probably a cup of "Sarius"type, with bulbous body restrictedat mid-height, high incurving rim, and vertical handles of Conspectusform R 13; LavizzariPedrazzini,Aco type 8. Decoration:The decorated field is divided into two areasby a horizontal double line with isolated bosses. In the upper zone there seems to be no division into panels; a small palmette on an undulating stem, emerging from a simple V calyx is preserved. Double lined segments divide the lower zone into invertedtriangles,each with a single centralmotif. On the three partiallypreservedspaces are:a verticalleaf emergingfrom a small acanthuscalyx with a floret on an undulatingstem to each side; a vertical segment of a tendril scroll; and a palmette on a volute base (one volute preserved) with a globular bud (?) on an undulating stem to each side (one preserved). The type of decorationalsobelongs to the traditionof the "Sarius"cups and related"Aco"examples. The form is presentin the thin walled potteryof Cosa (FormXXV), with severalexamplesdated in the majorityto the third quarterof the first centuryB.c.38Our fragmentmust thereforebelong to that group of random surfacematerialfrom level I of Room 22 of Augustandate (see above p. 68). No. 72 (pls. 49, 88). From Atrium Building I, Room 16. Augustan-Claudian.Two non-joiningfragments, one small, the other very small, of the lower body of a cup like the preceding. Fabric:fine, very hard, pinkish yellow (5YR6/5). Slip: thin, firm, silk-shiny,red (2.5YR4/8). Technique:good, very thin wall, some abrasionson high relief. Decoration:The decorated field is bordered below by a chain of tiny leaves and a ridge. On the largerfragmentare partiallypreservedtwo inverted trianglesframedby double lines; a fusiform spike with spiraldecoration fills the triangleon the left; two leaves on a short verticalstem rising above a half rosette, that on the right. Above to the left is a small rosette. The same rosette and spike within partitions are partiallypreserved on the smallerfragment. No. 73 (CE.1704; pl. 88). From Atrium Building I, Room 11, level I. Augustan-Claudian. Large fragment of lower body with part of the base from a cup, now lost. Fabric:fine, buff. Slip: firm, matte, red. Technique:thin wall. Form:The disk base and beginning of curving body suggest a broad beaker or deep cup of Conspectusform R 11. Decoration:The decorated field is bordered below by a chain of paired tiny leaves. In the preserved lower part of the decoration is a garlandof ivy leaves enclosed by a running vine scroll. Between the leaves are small palmettes. A garlandidentical to ours is the central decorativemotif on fragmentsfrom a cup of the same Conspectusform R 11, from Bolsena.39Goudineau suggested that because of its technical features, very soft, light ochre fabric, and matte slip, differentfrom "classical"Arretine,the vase may belong to an earlyperiod. This assumption, however, seems contradictedby the form, which is tentatively dated middle-late Augustan. No. 74 (pls. 49, 88). From Atrium Building I, Room 15, level I, surface level. Medium-sized fragment of high rim from a chalice. 8

CosA,Thin WalledPottery,81-85.

39 GOUDINEAU, Are~tined reliefs,no. 9, p. 175, pl. IV.


161

Fabric:fine,hard,pinkishyellow(5YR6/4).Slip:firm,silk-shiny,red (1OR4/7). Form:The plainverticalouterfaceof the rim,withappliquedmotif,andthe heavymultiplemoldingsaboveindicatea chaliceof Conspectus formR 9.2. On the uppermoldingaretracesof a handle attachment. Decoration: The appliquedmotif,almostentirelypreserved,representsthe beardedheadof an old manin frontalview.Theflatnose,openmouthwithvisibleteeth,bushyV-shapedeyebrowsmeeting the hairline,andbig lunateearssuggesta connectionwith the iconographyof the EgyptianBes40 ratherthanwiththe Silenusheadsin the repertoryof Rasinius.41 No. 75 (pls.50, 88). FromAtriumBuildingI, Room 16, level I. Augustan-Claudian. Verysmall fragmentof centralbody,possiblyfroma smallcup. Fabric:slightlygritty,very hard, pinkishyellow (5YR6/6).Slip:very thin, firm,silk-shiny,red (2.5YR4/8).Technique: good, mechanicalabrasions. Decoration: Miniaturesatyrseatedon a verylargerockin profileto theright,playingthedoublepipe andscabellum; to his left incomprehensible tracesof relief.The satyris a miniatureversionof the sametypein the "DionysianOffering"cyclefromthe workshopof M. Perennius,D/W XII, 2. No. 76 (pls. 50, 88). From area along the west side of the Basilica, surfacelevel. Small fragmentof

rimfroma chalice. Fabric:fine,hard,pinkishyellow(5YR6/5).Slip:firm,silk-shiny,darkred (2.5YR4/7).Technique: good. Form:The plainouterfaceof the rimwith appliquedmotif(dolphintail?)andthe multipleheavy moldings at the lip indicate a chalice of Conspectusform R 9.2. Decoration:On the right are traces of another appliqued motif. No. 77 (pls. 50, 88). From the House of the Skeleton, unstratified.Two non-joiningfragments,one medium-sized of upper body and one small of lower body, likely from a chalice. Fabric:fine, slightlysoft, pinkish yellow (5YR7/4). Slip:thin, firm,silk-shiny/matte,red (2.5YR4/7). Technique:mechanical abrasionson high relief. Form:The flat fragment of lower body above attachment of foot suggests a chalice with shallow hemisphericalbody of Conspectusform R 5.1. Decoration:On larger fragment is a border of ovoli with a double outline and above them a row of bosses. Below them is a stylized palmette with central lanceolate leaf and three archingleaves to each side. To the right of the palmette is an oblique fusiform spike with spiral decoration. On the smallfragmentis a clusterof floralstalks,the centralone possibly of a palmette, covered by a rosette at the base. No. 78 (pls. 50, 88). From Atrium Building I, Room 16, level I. Augustan-Claudian. Very small fragmentof central body, probably from a small bowl. Fabric:fine, very hard, pinkish (2.5YR6/6). Slip:thin, firm,silk-shiny,dark red (10R4/7). Technique: good, thin wall. Decoration:Upper body of small boar turned in profile to the left. Partly preserved above it is a bird picking on a bunch of grapes. 40 LIMC, Ill.1, p. 100, 24b, 25, 111.2,p. 77.

41

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The boar is a small-sized version of the type D/W XVII, 19 of M. Perennius, but without a hound on its back. The bird picking on fruit is also a common motif in this workshop.42 No. 79 (pls. 50, 89). From AtriumBuilding I, Room 16, level I. Augustan-Claudian.Medium-sized fragment of lower body from a chalice. Fabric:fine with some impurities,very hard, dark pinkish (10R5/6). Slip: thin, firm, red (10R4/6). Technique:cursory casting. Decoration:At bottom is a row of rosetteswith dot petals surroundingdouble circletsat the centers. Above them is a large acanthusleaf with rising elongated leaves and spikes (?). On each side is a small acanthus calyx, with a rising leaf and spikes. No. 80 (pls. 50, 89). From AtriumBuilding I, Room 16, level I. Augustan-Claudian.Smallfragment from central body of a small bowl. Fabric:fine, very hard, darkpinkish (10R5/6). Slip:thin, firm, red (10R4/6). Technique:very similar to the preceding but with better casting. Decoration:The decoratedfield is dividedverticaliyby a double line of which a segmentis preserved. To the left of the line is a small ithyphallic Dionysos herm in profile to the left with the left hand resting on the hip. It stands on a large spreadingflower with vertical stem. The herm derives from a type belonging to the workshop of M. Perennius Tigranus.43 No. 81 (pls. 50, 89). From Atrium Building I, Room 16, level I. Augustan-Claudian.Two non-joining fragmentsfrom a chalice;one, large, of rim and beginning of body; the other, medium-sized,of lower body with beginning of foot attachment. Fabric:fine with irregulartexture, hard, pinkish yellow (5YR6/5). Slip: thin, firm, silk-shiny,red (2.5YR4/6) Technique:mediocre, rough surface on decorated field, polished on rim, poor casting. Form:The tall, slightly flaringvertical rim, hemisphericalbody, and projecting molding between rim and body belong to a chalice of Conspectusform R 9.3. Decoration: Below the molding, decorated with coarse rouletting, is a row of small irregular rosettes. On the decorated field is a large flower formed by a cluster of minute circles that is supported by two convergingcurved lines. To the left are additionalpetals. To the rightis a large ivy leaf partly erased by defective casting. Below it and to the right is the curved line of a second flower. No. 82 (pls. 50, 89). From area along the northeast side of the Basilica,unstratified.Medium-sized fragment of rim from a chalice. Fabric:fine, hard, dark pinkish (2.5YR6.5/5). Slip:firm, silk-shiny,dark red (2.5YR4/7). Technique: mechanical abrasionson high relief. Form:The rim is separatedfrom the body by a tall plain element with appliqued motif and by two convex moldings decoratedwith rouletting;above the plain element aretracesof grooves and ridges markingthe lip. These features suggest a chalice similarto Conspectusform R 4.1 or R 9. Decoration:The appliqued motif is the head of a satyrturned to the right, with long wavy hair and 42 Fragment of a small cup in Tiubingen,D/W, 223, pl. 32, no. 477, attributed by STENICO to M. Perennius Tigranus, Liste, 1382.

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deep-seteye. At the top of his head is the beginningof a verticalpseudo-handle.Accordingto Stenicothistypeof satyris verypopularas both a reliefandan applique.4" No. 83 (pls.50, 89). Fromthe sewerof StreetM. Middle-lateAugustan(see abovep. 35). Small fragmentof centralbodyfroma vaseof elongatedshape,possiblya beaker. darkred (2.5YR4/7). Fabric:fine, hard,darkpinkish(2.5YR6.5/6).Slip:thin, silk-shiny/matte, Technique: abrasionson relief,somecalcareousincrustation. A chainof coarse,irregular, Decoration: tinyleavesdividesthe fieldinto two horizontalzones.In the upperzone is a five-petaledrosetteaboveto the left, andbelowto the rightan acanthuscalyx withgranularinterior. In the lowerzone aretracesof a rosette(?). No. 84 (pls.50, 89). Fromthe dumpat the northwestcornerof the Basilica,levelII. Augustan(see abovepp. 38-39). Verysmallfragmentof lowerbodywithbeginningof baseof a beaker. Fabric:fine, hard,pinkish(2.5YR6/6).Slip:firm,matte,darkred (2.5YR4/7).Technique: wheel markson innersurface. Form:The slightlycurvingwallanddiskbase,offsetby a groove,indicatean "Aco"typebeakerof formR 12.1. Conspectus To the left is the beginningof an obliquerod dividingthe fieldinto triangularpanels; Decoration: to the rightis a smallleafon an undulatingstem. No. 85 (pls.50, 89).Fromareaalongthe northeastwallof the Basilica,surfacelevel.Smallfragment possiblyof chalice. Fabric:slightlygritty,veryhard,darkpinkish(10R5.5/6).Slip:thin,firm,silk-shiny/glossy, darkred (2.5YR4/7).Technzque: good. Form:Plainareaaroundattachmentof foot, separatedfromthe decorationby a seriesof grooves andribs. Decoration: Drapedfemalefigurein profilepreservedbelow the knee;her extendedleg is visible throughherverylight,pleatedchiton. Shemaybe one of the manydrapedfemalefiguresin the repertoryof Rasinius.

44 STENICO, Matrici a placca, type 41 and nos. 46-48, pp.

62-63, pl. XIII; as applique, see D/W, pl. 40, nos. 624-25.

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of the prestigiousartifactsof Arretium,Cosahouseholdshadto resort fterthe disappearance in large Manufactured to a modestreplacementto furnishtheirtables:LateItalianSigillata.1 quantityandwithlittleconcernforqualityin centerslocatedin thecostalregionof northernEtruria, theplainanddecoratedproductsof theseworkshopsfoundatCosaaneasilyaccessibleandreceptive market.The seventy-fiveentriesof a preliminary catalogueof mold-decorated ware,whichI compiledin viewof an eventualpublication,do not includeallthe materialfoundhere.Thesesamples comemostlyfromsurfaceor disturbedlevelsin areasadjacentto the northwestandnortheastwalls of theBasilicaand,in smallernumber,fromthe midtownzoneof privatedwellings,buthalfa dozen werefoundin levelI of Room22 of AtriumBuildingI. Of particularinterestare: A

1.1. Bottomwithbeginningof wallfroma carinatedbowl of formDRAGENDORFF 29 (CE.1743;pl. 90) preservinga row of bosses and, on the floor,partof a crescentstampwith the signature[L. RASIN.]PISAN[I] (CVArr1476, 1558 = OCK 1690).Althoughthis potteris reputedto be the oldestof thoseknownto us, he couldnot havestartedhis activitybeforethe timeof Domitian,the generallyaccepteddatefor the beginningof decoratedLateItalianSigillata. 1.2. Six non-joiningfragments(pl. 90) froma carinatedbowl of formDRAGENDORFF29 decorated in the upperzone with figuresof offerentyouthsin profile(MEDRI,Tardo-italica, 1.3.5.01.b)and of Harpokratesin frontalview (MEDRI, Tardo-italica, 1.1.1.05),eachstandingunderan archof an arcade,fromlevel I of Rooms22 and 16 furtherdemonstratethe presenceof materiallaterthan Claudianin theseupperlevels. To L. RasiniusPisanusmustbe attributedalsothe following: 1.3. Twonon-joiningfragments(pl. 90) froma surfacelevel on the northslope of the Arx, one of lower body decoratedwith superimposedrows of verticaldolphins (MEDRI,Tardo-italica, 2.3.1), and a secondof foot bearingon the floora crescentstampwith the signature[L.RASIN.] PISANI. 1.4. A fragmentary foot withbeginningof wall (C67.39,pl. 91) froma surfacelevelof the eastern ' MEDRI, Tardo-italica,with extensive bibliography,165-72. The essential bibliography also includes: G. Pucci, "Terra sigillata tardo-italica,"Conspectus,13-16; id., "Le officine ceramiche tardo-italiche," Ceramiques hellenistiques et romaines = Ann. Litt. Univ. Besan,on 242 (1980) 135-57; LAVIZZARI PEDRAZZINI, Pisani Dossi; H. Klumbach, "Das

Verheitungsgebietder spaitalischen TerraSigillata,"JRGZM 3 (1956) 117-33; H. Comfort, "A PreliminaryStudy of Late ItalianSigilata," AJA40 (1936) 437-5 1. For the Late Italian Sigillatafrom Cosa:H. Comfortand A. MargueriteMcCann, "Decorated Late Italian Sigilata," in COsA,Port, 238-41.

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part of Street M, preserving some indecipherable elements of a lower register decoration and, on the floor of the interior,part of a crescent stamp with the signature [L.RASIN.]PISAN[I]. 1.5. A fragmentaryfoot with beginning of wall (C66.31; pl. 91), also from a surface level of Street M, preservingtraces of a scroll decoration in the lower registerand part of a crescent stamp on the floor signed L.RASIN. P[ISANI]. The signature of Sex. Murrius Festus appears three times on stamps in planta pedis, once in rectangularframe and once in crescent on the following fragments: 1.6. Large fragmentof bottom and lower wall (CD.680; pl. 91) from a bowl likely of DRAGENDORFF form 29, found in a surfacelevel along the western wall of the Basilica.It is decorated in the lower registerwith a sequence of male figures turned to the left (LAVIZZARIPEDRAZZINI,Pisani Dossi, 47) under suspended arches and separated by double rosettes; on the floor is the signature SEX.M.F in planta pedis (CVArr.927, 1054 = OCK 1212). 1.7. A large fragment of bottom with part of lower body and small fragment of lower body (CD.7 13, pl. 92) from a bowl of DRAGENDORFFform 29, found in a surface level along the northwest wall of the Basilica. It is decorated in the lower register with a sequence of standing female figures in profile to the left (MEDRI, Tardo-italica,1.4.9.04), a motif of superimposed volutes (MEDRI, Tardo-italica,6.3.2.01), and an indecipherable tree; on the floor is part of a worn stamp in planta pedis with the letter M clearly legible between traces of two other letters, the one on the right probably F 1.8. A small fragmentof wall (CD.980; pI. 92) from a disturbedlevel external to the northeastwall of the Basilica preserving part of an offerent female figure (MEDRI, Tardo-italica,1.4.3.01); to the left of the figure is a stamp in planta pedis with the retrogradesignature [SE]X.M.E 1.9. The same figure appears on a fragment of wall from a different vase (CD.595; pl. 92,1.9a) found in a surface level outside the northeastwall of the Basilica;to the left of the figure is a stamp in planta pedis with the retrogradesignature SEX.M[.F]. To this vase may also belong two more fragments,one preservingpart of the same female figure (pl. 92,1.9b), the other part of a standing male figure (pl. 92,1.9c). 1.10. A very small fragment of wall (CE.1808; pl. 92) from a surface level outside the northwest wall of the Basilica preservingpart of an architecturalelement to the left and of an indecipherable motif to the right; below the latter is part of a rectangular stamp with the retrograde signature [S.]M.F. 1.11. To the same workshop may also be attributed a fragmentary crescent stamp preserving the letters SEX on the floor of a small bottom fragment with beginning of wall (pl. 92,1.1 Ia) from a carinated bowl found in a disturbed level along the Basilica northeast wall; in the lower register is a sequence of vertical palm leaves (MEDRI, Tardo-italica,5.2.1.08) with a small calyx (?) between. Four more fragments (pl. 92,1.1 ib) decorated with a sequence of identical leaves in the upper register and running dogs (MEDRI, Tardo-italica,2.2.8.09) below may belong to the same bowl.

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1.12. Of particular interest are two non-joining fragments of foot and lower wall (CF.2201; pl. 92) from a carinated bowl, a sporadic find from the vicinity of Temple B, on the northeast side of the Forum. On the lower register are, partially preserved, two large appliques of very good naturalistic quality,a Silenus mask of type STENICO,Rasinius 145 and the torso of a female figure in frontal view, the beginning of her right arm raised, the folds of her chiton swaying, tentatively identified as Gaea (MEDRI, Tardo-italica,1.2.1.08). On the floor is part of a stamp in planta pedis with the signature SEX, M [ ]. The style of decoration seems to indicate a date close to the beginning of the production; the type of stamp suggests the name of SEX.MV(RRIVS) P() (CVArr 1059 = OCK 1213.19), probably an abbreviation of PISANVS, a possible contemporary of L. Rasinius Pisanus. 1.13. The name of a potter,so far never associatedwith decoratedware, SHFES (OCK 905), appears on a stamp in plantapedis on the floor of a foot with beginning of lower wall (CD.660; pl. 93), from form 29, found in a surfacelevel outside the north corner of the a carinatedbowl of DRAGENDORFF Basilica.A sequence of pomegranates (MEDRI,Tardo-italica,5.4.1.02) and above them a section of a garland (MEDRI,Tardo-italica,8.6.1.03) are what is preserved of the lower registerdecoration. A detailed examination of all unsigned materialfound at Cosa would go beyond the limits of the present study.Brieflystated, the most evident features are:the almost exclusive adoption of the carinatedbowl of DRAGENDORFFform 29, the preference for a decorativerepertoryof disconnected motifs, mostly of Arretine derivation, aligned in simple sequence or framed by architecturalelements, and the less frequent use of floral scrolls. A few examples, nevertheless, deserve particular attention: form 29, from a 1.14. Two large fragments(C66.542; pl. 93) from a carinatedbowl of DRAGENDORFF is a in the upper register sequence of motifs, surfacelevel in the easternsection of Street M; present maenads alternatingwith trees, that in their crisp rendition are still very faithful to their Rasinian prototypes.2

1.15. On a wall fragment(pl. 93) from a carinatedbowl of DRAGENDORFFform 29, found in a surface level outside the northeast wall of the Basilica, are preserved in the lower register two grotesque figures of Ateian derivation (MEDRI, Tardo-italica,1.3.1.01) (see above no. 46). 1.16. The most significantof all the finds of decorated Late Italian Sigillatafrom Cosa, however, is a small sherd of wall (CD.512; pl. 93,1.16a) found unstratifiedin a vaulted cellar below the floor of the tribunalin the Basilica.I shall summarizethis discoveryhere, having treated the subject in a previous publication.3Tracesof carinationin the lower left cornerindicate that the fragmentcomes from a bowl of DRAGENDORFFform 29. Of the original upper register decoration are preserved the 8.3.1) supported on a very sketchy unequal imposts of two semicirculararches (MEDRI,Tardo-italica, Eros who stands, turned to the left, holding a garland (MEDRI, Tardo-italica,1.1.3.04.d). The fields under the arches are occupied by coin casts derived from real coin impressions in the mold. The one to the right, a little more than half preserved, is a coin of Hadrian's empress Sabina, issued by the mint of Rome and dated A.D. 128-134 (pl. 93,1.16b-c). Of the legend, originallyreading: SABINA.AVGVSTA.HADRIANIAVG.PP,the letters [SA]BINA.AVGVSTAare decipherable(pI. 2 STENICO. Rasinius, nos. 43, 134.

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93,1.16d). The reverseof the originalcoin, bearing either the figure of Vestaholding palladiumand scepter or of Ceres holding two ears of wheat (pl. 93,1.16c), might have been used in alternation with the obverse head of Sabina. The standing Eros, who functions as a caryatid,is a recurrent motif in the decoration of this class of pottery and specificallyat Cosa, where it appearson at least four fragmentsfrom different vases.4 The significanceof the Cosa fragmentdecorated with the coin of Sabinais evident. By placing a terminuspost quem of absolute chronologyin the fourth decade of the second centuryA.D. for the production of decorated Late Italian Sigillata,it gives the necessary support to previous evidence from stratifiedexcavations, specificallyfrom the Terme del Nuotatore at Ostia.5A lengthy debate between the supporters of an earlier or later chronology was thus put definitivelyto rest. From a stylistic point of view, this find testifies to the existence of those aclassicaltrends continuously underlying the various phases of Roman official art, even in the age of Hadrian, under the surface of one of the most deliberate and pervasive classical revivalsof all time. Indeed, in a perspective not inclined to obvious derogatoryevaluation, this unlikely grafting of scattered naturalisticelements of classical tradition, inherited from the Arretine workshops, into a linear and abstractspatial organization derived from Gaulish sigillata,the stylistic peculiarityof this class of pottery, can only appear as the manifestationof a truly aclassicalartisticexpression.

4 Ibid.,pl. 42,4-7.

5Ibid., 325.

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THE SOUTH GAULISH SIGILLATA

Fragmentsfrom a considerable number of vases of South Gaulish Sigillatawere found at Cosa, almost all mold decorated and produced at La Graufesenque.1Although they are outside the limits of the present study, a rapid survey of the most significantmay yield interesting data. They come, like the Late Italian Sigillata,from areas adjacent to northwest and northeast walls of the Basilica and from the midtown area of habitation; the stratigraphicaldata are once again largely unsatisfactory. Two samples were found in level I of Room 22 of Atrium Building I. 2.1. The first is a small fragmentof upper body with beginning of rim (pl. 94). The main decorated field is framed above by a border of ovolo-and-tongue ending in stars,below which is a chain of ivy leaves. In the main field are preserved parts of two fern leaves and a small, stylized vegetal element on a tall stem. This type of decoration indicates an early stage of production at La Graufesenque, close therefore to the beginning of accumulation in level I of Room 22, which took place during the fifth decade of the first century A.D. 2.2. The second sample comprises three non-joiningfragmentsof rim with upper wall from a bowl of DRAGENDORFFform 29 (pl. 94). Beneath the rouletted rim, in the upper register,are spiralswithin looped festoons alternatingwith panels filled with superimposedrows of diagonal arrowheads.The bowl belongs to a later phase of activity at La Graufesenque, dated Neronian/early Flavian, thus contemporarywith or slightly later than the latest Italian sigillatain the same context. 2.3. To the early Flavian period may be dated a bowl of DRAGENDORFFform 29 (CD.1029; pls. 51, 94), about one-third preserved, from a surface level outside the west side of the Basilica. Beneath the rouletted rim, in the upper register,is a row of large looped festoons, each enclosing a smaller festoon ending in an arrowhead;in the lower register,panels with Saint Andrew'scrosses alternate with large rosettes inside circles. On the floor is a stamp with the signatureIVNI. Three more stampshave been published by ArcherMartinin a preliminarysurveyof the South Gaulish Sigillatafrom Cosa.2 l On South Gaulish Sigillatafound in Italy, see A. Martin, "Nouvellesobservationssurla sigill6esud-gauloiseen Italie," S.FE.C.A.G., Actes Congr.Millau (Marseilles1994) 115-26; id., "Rare Pieces of Gaulish Sigillata from the Neighborhood of Rome,"RCRFActa29-30 (1991) 71-72; id., "South Gaulish Sigillatain Italy,"Opus 6 (1985) 125-35. On South

Gaulish Sigillata found at Cosa: id., "A PreliminaryNote on South Gaulish Sigillata at Cosa," RCRFActa37 (2001) 241-42. According to Martinthe fragmentsof Gaulish Sigillata from Cosa belong to more than fifty-fivevessels. 2

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2.4. The first is on the floor of a base from a bowl of

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decoratedwithleavesandfestoonsin the lowerregister.Foundin a surfaceleveloverStreetM, it hasbeen readOFSILVANanddatedTiberianto Flavian. 2.5. The second, on the floor of an undecorated marbled cup of DRAGENDORFF form 27 (C70.290; pl. 94), reads OF NIC and can be dated to ca. A.D.50-80.

2.6. Thethird,on thefloorof anunidentified basewithmarbledslip(C67.142;pl. 94)froma surface levelin the easternpartof StreetM, reads[SENIICIOandis datableTiberianto Flavian. 2.7. A decorated example of La Graufesenquemarbled ware at Cosa is a fragmentof rim with the beginning of the wall from a bowl of DRAGENDORFF form 29 (C70.284; pl. 94), found in a surface level over StreetM. Below the rouletted rim is preserveda portion of the upper registerdecoration: the forepart of a running rabbit and a panel of network with round beads at most intersections. 2.8. To a hemisphericalbowl of DRAGENDORFF form 37, a shape that from the early Flavianperiod graduallyreplaced DRAGENDORFF form 29 and is scantily represented at Cosa, belongs a very large fragmentfrom a surfacelevel outside the northeastwall of the Basilica(CD.53 1; pls. 51, 94). Below the plain rim are a border of ovolo-and-tongue ending in stars and a triple line of arrowheads(?). The main field is filled by a looping vine with largeleaves and smalllanceolateleaves;also preserved within the loops are a small runninganimaland a stylized clusterof three elongatedpetals. The vase may be dated to the early Flavianperiod. In brief, the decorated South Gaulish Sigillataseems to have been imported to Cosa to fill the gap between the disappearanceof decorated Arretineware, around the middle of the first century A.D., and the beginning of production of decorated Late Italian Sigillata in the Flavian period. The quantity of these imports, very large for such a short time, becomes even more strikingwhen compared with the number of decorated Arretine vases found at Cosa, which cover a span of at least eighty,possibly ninety,years.The lower price of Gaulish sigillataseems evident. When the late Italian workshops of northern Etruriain turn adopted a similar strategyof mass production and low prices, they were able to capture and dominate the market down to the end of their operation, probably under the Antonines.

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