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Terra Sigillata Plate with Stamp of Gelli(us)
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Wide mouthed bowl, walls that are almost perpendicular to its flat, wide base, and a bead rim (1). Deep red slip. The bowl is entirely intact. One wide line is inscribed just inside the rim of the bowl, running the entire circumference. Another line is inscribed around the circumference where the walls meet the inside base. In the middle of the base are multiple wheel marks, with one deeper incised circle towards the middle. The exterior of the bowl shows numerous wheel marks but has no decoration. The foot is perpendicular to the base of the bowl and has two small chips missing. The plate is decorated on the interior with a central stamp in the shape of a foot (planta pedis) bearing the maker's mark: "GELLI."
1. See a similarly shaped bowl in J.W. Hayes, Roman Pottery from the South Stoa at Corinth. Hesperia 42 (1973): 83.44.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Dr. Harris Kennedy Milton MA (by 1932) gift; to the Fogg Art Museum 1932.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Dr. Harris Kennedy Class of 1894
Title: Terra Sigillata Plate with Stamp of Gelli(us)
Description:
Wide mouthed bowl, walls that are almost perpendicular to its flat, wide base, and a bead rim (1).
Deep red slip.
The bowl is entirely intact.
One wide line is inscribed just inside the rim of the bowl, running the entire circumference.
Another line is inscribed around the circumference where the walls meet the inside base.
In the middle of the base are multiple wheel marks, with one deeper incised circle towards the middle.
The exterior of the bowl shows numerous wheel marks but has no decoration.
The foot is perpendicular to the base of the bowl and has two small chips missing.
The plate is decorated on the interior with a central stamp in the shape of a foot (planta pedis) bearing the maker's mark: "GELLI.
"
1.
See a similarly shaped bowl in J.
W.
Hayes, Roman Pottery from the South Stoa at Corinth.
Hesperia 42 (1973): 83.
44.
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