Excerpt from Sigillata Wares in the Near East, Vol. 6: A List of Potters' Stamps
The present essay has arisen out of the cataloguing of the terra sigillata and potters' stamps thereon in the Palestine Archaeological Museum, and the attempt to classify them in accordance with the best of our information up to date. It is suggestive, not exhaustive, being essentially an introduction to the List of Potters' Stamps which follows. This attempt has led me during the last three years to collect as many of the stamps derived from excavations or otherwise in the Eastern Mediterranean as I could come by; and to the kindness of the excavators and museum keepers in each case I am deeply indebted, for the facilities they have placed at my disposal for studying and copying the stamps, and for permission to publish them here: to Dr. T. Leslie Shear for those from the excavations of the American School at Athens in the Agora; to Professor W. A. Campbell for those from the Antioch excavations; to Signor Adriani for those in the Alexandria Museum; and to Miss Goldman for those from her excavations at Tarsus; while the work with the excavation staffs has been a pleasure. Section 1 is mainly a criticism of material already published, with some new observations; Sections 2 and 3 are for the most part new material, or here newly assembled.
In the face of the considerations advanced in Section 1 (below) it would seem rash to continue the use of terms which will almost certainly some day have to be abandoned, or at least differently applied, in the light of fuller knowledge. It is barely two years since the doctrinaire teaching, become after thirty years almost an axiom to the student of Roman Britain, that sigillata wares were never made in Britain but all imported from Gaul and Italy, was strikingly demolished by the find of kilns, moulds, and all the apparatus of manufacture at Colchester, revealing a large, native British group of sigillata potters. So perilous is it to argue ex absentia even in a field very thoroughly worked over. To be dogmatic on such frail evidence as we have for Eastern sigillata, amounting usually to no more than possibilities, is to court error. I shall attempt, therefore, in the present essay to argue for no more than can be satisfactorily proved by the existence or associations of the actual pottery.
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