cf. BussièreWohl2017, Getty Lamps on-line no. 274 (North African product)
Comparanda
cf. BémontChew2007, pp. 188, 271, 446, 476, nos. IT 48, GA 178, pls. 21, 51 (Musée d’archéologie nationale, Saint-Germain-en Laye)
Comparanda
sim. BMLII, pp. 84, 85, 247, 250, no. Q 1117, fig. 99, pl. 42 (shell has 11 ridges; from Pozzuoli, second half 1st century A.D.; D. M. Bailey)
Comparanda
sim. Bailey1965, p. 68, no. 235, pl. X (shell has 11 ridges; Victoria and Albert)
Comparanda
sim. Deneauve1969, p. 165, no. 696, pl. LXVII (shell has five ridges; Carthage)
Comparanda
sim. Farka1977, p. 326, no. 1460, pls. 25, 57 (shell has 11 ridges; Magdalensberg)
Comparanda
sim. Hanotte2005, p. 154, no. 72, fig. 8, pl. 65 (shell has 5 ridges; Lyon)
Conservation
2018 (June): mended with acrylic resin (UHU Hart) (JLR).
Description
Scallop shell
Fabric, firing, and surface description
Pale brown fabric with a tinge of orange, consistently fired(?); hard, fine, smooth to vaguely laminar break; rare to uncommon, tiny to small, mostly white but also black and dark gray bits. Thin, somewhat even, lustrous slip with metallic sheen, grayish brown but variable fired to light black patching. Smoothing marks around wall.
Preservation comment
Nine joining fragments preserve ca. 30% of back body, wall, small part of base, and attachment of handle. Very slight, sparse abrasion and scratching; mostly clean breaks; no visible encrustation.
