Hárshegyi Piroska: Kereskedők Sallában 2. (Zalalövő öröksége 4. Zalalövő, 2006)
Appendix: A relic of Pannonién Samian ware production N one of the nearly three and a half thousand Samian ware finds recovered at Zalalövő was produced in Pannónia, This is why the fragment unearthed in 2005 in the trench of the Amber Route in cutting Y/5 is so important. The wall of the bowl of a Drag. 27 shape decorated with relief ornament was somewhat thicker than those of the imported items, it was a lighter shade of red and the surface was peeling. It was produced in the pottery workshop at the Gas Factory in Aquincum in the workshop of a master known by the name Pacatus. The Samian wares produced in Pannónia usually could not compete with the Central Gallic ceramic transports of the Antonine period. Only the workshop at the Gas Factory attempted rivalry with the Gallic imported wares. About 70 bowl moulds (fragments) could be found in the legacy of this pottery workshop, while the number of the vessels made from them is no more than a dozen. Bálint Kuzsinszky unearthed the workshop and published its material between 1932 and 1936, and Katalin Kiss analysed it in her excellent study a few years later. She demonstrated that the products of the workshop could be divided into two large groups. The first contained the bowls of an unknown potter, cocalled master number one, while the other group was composed of Pacatus' bowls whose name is known from stamps. Pacatus is the only Samian ware potter in Pannónia whose name is known. The ornamental motives of the Zalalövő item can also be described with Katalin Kiss' types. The author published the large grape leaf in Pl. VIII. 58, the small one in Pl. VIII. 57, the masks that close the picture field in Pl. IV 5, and on the item in PI. XLVII. 105, they are arranged in a row at the bottom of the picture field similarly to our item. One of the most characteristic motives, a god with a hammer, however, is unknown in the type set of western Samian ware manufactures. It is either Vulcanus or Succellus, which Katalin Kiss illustrated in Pl. VII. 43. We can also find a representative of the same arrangement as on our item among the pattern bowls in Aquincum. Here the deity is placed between similar leaves (Kiss Pl. XXXII. 53 b). These ornamental elements can only be found in Pacatus' type set, and the same characteristic arrangements were used only in his workshop. The master produced cylindrical
