Ebook: A Pottery of the Middle Roman Imperial Period in Augst: (Venusstrasse-Ost 1968/69)

One of the first clues in establishing the dating of the finds from Venusstrasse Ost came in the form of negative information in that only a few of our sherds were covered in Dr. Elisabeth Ettlingens now classic work on the excavation of the 'Frauenthermen' in Augst. Since these baths were in use during the Second Century, only a few sherds from that period were deposited and these were found in mixed complexes such as the water drainage canals where no sequential chronology could be established. A few of our form types, particularly the beakers which were probably used as drinking vessels in the hot baths, were well covered in Dr. Ettlingens text, but the flagon and bottle forms were entirely missing. This implied that the sherds stem from the Second Century.