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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
Ce poinçon-matrice représente une scène érotique ; incomplet, seul un personnage féminin est visible
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
This punch-matrix represents a vine; it is incomplete: the handle is missing from this potter's tool, which was used to print a decoration in a mould for cutting sigillated ceramic. On the reverse, we can see traces of papillary tissue, a precious testimony to the potter's gesture.
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
This beautiful die is complete: the handle is intact as well as the decoration, a horse running on the left.
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
This andirons, like most of the andirons of this period, is shaped like a ram's head, a persistent Gallic tradition whose symbolic content probably refers to religious beliefs and the worship of domestic deities. Found between two heating channels of a potter's kiln, its location was therefore chosen with care, as close as possible to the hearth!
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
This statuette depicts a male figure with his head and part of his legs missing; he is seated on a rectangular pedestal, and wears a tunic; perhaps he is the god Mars? This statuette probably belongs to a larary.
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
On the obverse of this coin minted in Nîmes, we find the legend in Latin: IMP DIVI F (translation: Imperator Divi Filius - Emperor Son of the Divine) which accompanies the representation of two heads leaning against each other, on the right that of Augustus wearing the laurel wreath and on the left that of Agrippa with the rostral wreath which evokes his naval victories. On the reverse the legend in Latin: COL NEM (translation: colonia Nemausensis - Colonie Nimoise) is illustrated by a crocodile and a palm tree.
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
On the obverse of this coin we can read the legend in Latin: TI [CLAUDIVS CAESAR AVG PM TRP I]MP (translation: Tiberius Claudius Cæsar Augustus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestas Imperator - Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus, great pontiff, clothed with the tribunitian power and the imperial acclamation ) which accompanies the naked head of Emperor Claudius on the left; and on the reverse the legend: SC (translation: Senatus Consulte - by decree of the Senate) accompanies a representation of Minerva.
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
On the obverse of this coin is the Latin legend: [IMP CAES] DOMIT AVG GERM [...](translation: [Imperator Caesar] Domitius Augustus Germanicus [....] - Emperor Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus) that accompanies the bust of Domitian on the right; on the reverse, the legend: FORTUNA [AVGVSTI] (translation: "Fortuna Augusti" - The Fortune of the Augustus )is illustrated by the depiction of the deity Fortuna.
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
This round-headed hairpin, an element of adornment, witness to the activity of tablettery and the work of shaping the bone, was used to maintain the hairstyles.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
This round-headed hairpin, an element of adornment, witness to the activity of tablettery and the work of shaping the bone, was used to maintain the hairstyles.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
This eye needle is incomplete: it is missing the point and part of the eye; nevertheless, it is a beautiful witness to the textile activity and instrumentum that can be found within the workshops and dwellings of the potters.
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
Molded and turned clay. This mold (restored) is used to produce sigilated chalices; it is decorated with friezes of palmettes and rosettes, and twisted columns.
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
The decoration of this mold (restored) is composed of a plant frieze in the upper part, decorated with arrowheads and poppy chalices.
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
This mold is the work of the potter Casurius (see stamp CASVRIVSF) who worked in Lezoux between 160 and 195 AD.
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Bas-Empire [235/ 476]
This mold represents two dolphins on the right, and bears the MA graffiti on the reverse side.
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Bas-Empire [235/ 476]
This mold represents a flower in trifid like a fleur de lys and bears the MA graffiti on the reverse, quite common on this type of mold.
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
This mold represents a leaf with seven leaflets with striated edges, a typical decoration of the Dechelette 72 cups and has a graffiti on the reverse.
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
This mold with its rich decoration (prudish Venus, gladiator, medallion, rosettes...) is the work of the potter Doeccus as evidenced by his signature stamped in the middle of the decoration, and not on the foot or the bottom as potters are more used to do. This mold was used to produce the Drag. 37 cup, the most produced shape in Lezoux.
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Bas-Empire [235/ 476]
The bottom of the cup is decorated with a chrism (monogram formed by the first two Greek letters of the name of Christ intertwined) painted in black, one of the first Christian symbols, testimony of the establishment of the Christian religion in Gaul.
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
This cut and polished stone was probably (re)used by potters to smooth or decorate their ceramics during shaping.
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
The seal box is used to seal documents. The lid of this box is decorated with a star pattern whose branches end in a lunula. The decoration was nielloed, i.e. inlaid with black enamel, but this has almost entirely disappeared.
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
This bottom of the bowl bears the stamp of the potter Cobnertus, well known for the 1st century AD in Lezoux.
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
This bottom of cup carries the retrograde stamp of the potter Nasios (or Masios), probably Gallic
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
This bottom of cup carries the retrograde stamp of the potter Nasios (or Masios), probably Gallic
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Early Imperial [27 / 235]
This bottom of cup carries the stamp QUINTINIM of the potter Quintinus.
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Classical Middle Ages [1000/ 1300]
The decoration of the pot is composed of strips added in the shape of a diamond point.
