02-18-2009, 04:14 PM
It's a bit like David says potters had stamp marks and I have one myself, infact I use it as my Email address and have had it for years now. It comes from the base of a piece of Samianware that I found many years ago, so I resurrected the mans name and have used it for a long time now.
I now and then sign bits that I create with it and it's a name which is abbreviated and punctuated, for the Romans where very much into this kind of thing. It reads SEXTI-MA and it's the name of a Samian potter who lived at Lezoux in Gaul around AD 150, the full meaning is SEXTILIVS-MANVS or by the hand of Sextilivs.
There is also a more interesting aspect to it for on the edge of the base there is a finger print which I like to think is maybe that of Sextilivs himself. This is where I'd suggest you choose a good name maybe abbreviate it a bit and use that.
I now and then sign bits that I create with it and it's a name which is abbreviated and punctuated, for the Romans where very much into this kind of thing. It reads SEXTI-MA and it's the name of a Samian potter who lived at Lezoux in Gaul around AD 150, the full meaning is SEXTILIVS-MANVS or by the hand of Sextilivs.
There is also a more interesting aspect to it for on the edge of the base there is a finger print which I like to think is maybe that of Sextilivs himself. This is where I'd suggest you choose a good name maybe abbreviate it a bit and use that.
Brian Stobbs
