. The Intellectual observer. which it was impressed. Among the placesat which these potteries have been met with, I may mentionLezoux, near Thiers, in Auvergne ; Saverne, a few miles to thenorth-west of Strasburg; the valley of the Brusche, depart-ment of the Bas Rhin; Luxembourg; and Rheinzabern,between Spire and Lauterbourg. From all these circum-stances we are justified in the conclusion that the potterieswhich produced our Samian ware were situated in Gaul, chieflyin the north, in the countries bordering on or approaching tothe Rhine, and the export of this ware to Britain perhapscame down
. The Intellectual observer. which it was impressed. Among the placesat which these potteries have been met with, I may mentionLezoux, near Thiers, in Auvergne ; Saverne, a few miles to thenorth-west of Strasburg; the valley of the Brusche, depart-ment of the Bas Rhin; Luxembourg; and Rheinzabern,between Spire and Lauterbourg. From all these circum-stances we are justified in the conclusion that the potterieswhich produced our Samian ware were situated in Gaul, chieflyin the north, in the countries bordering on or approaching tothe Rhine, and the export of this ware to Britain perhapscame down that river. The discoveries made on these various sites throw light onthe processes employed in the manufacture of this pottery. Amould appears to have been first formed of clay, on the wheel,with a smoothed surface internally. On this interior surfacethe ornaments and figures were stamped. The clay of whichthe vessel was to be made, was pressed into the mould, afterwhich it appears to have been placed on the wheel, and tho. Fig. 2. Potters Marks. internal surface of the vessel formed and smoothed. Tliopotters name was then stamped in the centre, across thebottom, and the whole was glazed and placed in the saw, some years ago, in the cabinet of the late Comte doPortales, in Paris, one of these moulds, found, if I rememberright, at Luxembourg, in which this process was fully exem-plified. Roman Samian Ware. 231 The potters name was placed in a small rectangular label,as in the two examples to the right in our cut, Fig 2. Thename was most commonly put in the genitive case, combinedwith O or OF, abbreviations of the word officina, as in theexample given in our cut, where OF MODESTI stands forofficina Modesti, i. e., from the workshop of Modestus; or withM for manu, as COBNERTI M, for Gobnerti maim, by or fromthe hand of Cobnertus, Sometimes the name is given in thenominative case, followed by F or FE, for fecit, as COCVRO F,for Cocuro fecit, Oocuro made it. Doubled or lig
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