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Some New and Some Forgotten Stamped Skillets, and the Date of P. Cipius Polybius

1981; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 12; Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/526242

1753-5352

Julian Bennett, Robert Young,

Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Acatalogue of stamped bronze vessels found in Britain, published by McPeake and Moore in a recent volume of this journal,2 discusses a total of 40 vessels, one of which was omitted by accident from their published list (Part II below, No. 34). There are, however, a number of errors and omissions in this catalogue, and they have failed to include three stamped skillets that have been known since early this century: all these vessels are referred to in papers used by McPeake and Moore in compiling their catalogue. A principal purpose of this paper, therefore, is to correct the major inaccuracies in McPeake's and Moore's contribution, and to bring to wider notice the three 'forgotten' skillets together with three recent finds from Cumbria: this work forms the basis of our Part II. In Part I, however, we discuss the evidence for the date at which Publius Cipius Polybius, the most prolific of the Capuan bronzesmiths, was chiefly active.