Casgliadau Arlein

There is a promounced carination, and the little of the rim which remains indicates that it was quite sharply everted. The decoration is very neathly moulded. The upper zone scroll has large sixteen pointed rosettes, four beaded tendril bindings and a six pointed tuft or leaf. There is a middle zone beneath the narrow central moulding, consisting of three rows of neat, broad arrowheads, and the lowest frieze is of an undulating leafy stem, formed from separate festoons, enclosing fan shaped leaves in the concavities. Approximate parallels for the upper zone include Knorr 1952, Taf. 44 A (Murranus) and Taf. 34, C (Licinus) and Dannell 1971, no. 22, fig. 128. In the lower frieze, the festoons used by Masclus are close to ours, while the smaller fan shaped leaf of Scottius matches the leaf. There are later parallels as well however, the general style of the lower zone may be compared with a piece stamped OF MOMMO. Vessels by Masclus also have much in common with the design of ours. Taking form and fabric into account, as well as decoration, the date is unlikely to go back into the Claudian period.

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