Hárshegyi Piroska: Kereskedők Sallában 2. (Zalalövő öröksége 4. Zalalövő, 2006)

vessels of Drag.

30 type similar to our bowl and hemispherical Drag. 37 type vessels. The influence of the Cinnamus workshop in Lezoux can be observed in his patterns and compositions as Katalin Kiss has already noted, while the products of the local handicraft industry could have an effect on his style. The ornamental motives of the pottery workshop at the Gas Factory imitate, at the same time, the patterns applied in the Rhainzabern workshop, which offers an important datum to the dating of the active period of the workshop, a so-called terminus post quern date. Katalin Kiss's results do not need modification in this respect either, even after 70 years, although the activity of Cinnamus and the start of production in the Rheinzabern workshop have since been shifted to a later period. The officina of Lezoux exported its products to our province between 140 and 170/178 AD, while the start of production in the Rheinzabern workshop is dated from about 150 AD or the subsequent years. Accordingly, the Pacatus workshop produced vessels with relief ornamentation in the third quarter of the 2

nd century. In a later phase of its activity, it could open a branch in Mursa (Eszék, Osijek). It is not accidental that the influence of this "branch" can be detected on a Pannonian Samian ware discovered during excavations in Sopianae (Pécs). The products of the pottery workshop at the Gas Factory are extremely rare. It was explained by the fact that the workshop worked for export, although it could only mean an export inside Pannónia if we take into account the materials of the neighbouring provinces. Not only Samian wares but also other products of the workshop were exported from Aquincum. Paula Zsidi and Márta Balla's revealed with the help of neutron activation analyses that not even the braying cups were used in the Civil Town or the canabae: they were transported to more distant territories. Pacatus' Samian wares are known, apart from Aquincum, from only Gorsium (Tác) and Cibelae (Vinkovci, Croatia) on the territory of Lower Pannónia. Even here only couple items represented them. Only a bowl from Dorog can be attributed to Pacatus' workshop west of Aquincum, while no vessels of the pottery workshop at the Gas Factory has been found in Pannónia superior. We can really appreciate the success of the workshop when we take into consideration that other workshops producing Samian wares with relief ornaments also existed close to Salla, like in Poetovio or Savaria. The pottery workshops of Savaria could be among the ones that supplied the neighbouring town with ceramics, as the stamp of a braying cup produced in Savaria proves it. Yet ceramics with