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    From the beginning of the 1st century, we begin to find the first production of terra sigillata pottery and pottery made from powdered rock, as was produced throughout the rest of Gaul. These ceramics coexisted with more regional varieties imitating Italian varieties made from terra nigra or beige clay with red coating.

    In the second century sigillate pottery was in the ascendancy with a series of original designs largely originating from the Loire and manufactured in the workshops of Theseus Pouillus.

    The Champ de l'Image necropolis has provided us with a selection of samples of the shapes used in Argentomagus in the second half of the 2nd century and the beginning of the 3rd: rounded dishes with oblique sides, tripod bowls, oval vases and other sigillate pottery originating from workshops at Lezoux in the centre of Gaul.

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