Roman Gaulish sigillata fragment with various animals and figures

R193

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A fragment from a large terra sigillata (Samian Ware) pottery bowl decorated with numerous figures including a hippocamp, dolphin, lion and horse.

 Culture 
Roman Gaul, early to mid 2nd Century AD

9.6 x 14.9 cms

 Condition 
Fragment, surface discoloured

Provenance 
Ex. Brunet Collection, Les Baux-de-Provence, France; acquired before 1973 from the collection of the archaeologist and antiquarian G. Lepetit, France.

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