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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
A greatly restored samian bowl (form 30), made in a mould creating the relief decoration. There seem to have been compartments all round, with a figure in each. There is the stamp DIVI standing for Divixtus, a potter from Central Gaul. A.D. 160-190.
Samian is fine tableware imported into Britain on a vast scale during the first and second centuries A.D. By the second century, the central Gaulish factories took over as the main source of production.
Dr 30 is an approximately cylindrical decorated bowl (vase)
Site Name: Castle Villa (Baths), Caerleon
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