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The Colchester Vase: A Master Potter at Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2025

Joanna Bird  and
Nina Crummy
Joanna Bird
Affiliation:
Guildford, Surrey [email protected]
Nina Crummy
Affiliation:
Copford, Colchester [email protected]
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Abstract

Decorated en barbotine with arena scenes and with an inscription cut pre-firing, the Colchester Vase is a late-second-century product of the local pottery industry. Of exceptional quality, it may have come from the workshop to which the named potter Acceptus iii belonged. It appears to record a performance in the town, and was used as the cremation urn for a non-local male of 40+ years.

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Acceptus iiiColchestercolour-coatgladiatorskilnssamian
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Britannia , Volume 55 , November 2024 , pp. 25 - 46
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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