The importation of Italian sigillata to Algeria

Abstract

During recent years this journal has published a complete review by Monsieur Roger Guéry of the stamps found on terra sigillata in Algeria up to the date of Algerian independence. The present article reviews the conclusions to be drawn from this material concerning the importation of 'terra sigillata from Italy. The ware has made its first appearance in Algeria by the mid-Augustan period, but the most prolific datable finds belong to the last three quarters of the first century AD. About a third of this material was manufactured at Arezzo and about a sixth of it at Pisa : other sources are also represented but many still remain unknown. The list of potters contains several new names of interest.