This repository contains 5308 photos of 162 complete, and near complete, Roman terra sigillata vessels that were taken in December 2019 by the Arch-I-Scan team in the Museum of London’s antiquarian collection. We are grateful to the Museum for permission to take these photos in their storerooms.
List of classes, number of pots and number of images for each class are presented below
Class # Pots # Images
Dr18 51 1894
Dr24-25 8 270
Dr27 28 841
Dr29 18 623
Dr33 13 418
Dr35 12 339
Dr36 15 511
Dr37 9 183
Dr38 8 229
Total 162 5308
Note, that zip files with images of pots are password protected.
- The Museum of London delegates to Archi-I-Scan the approval of access to and the publication of images by academic researchers for use in research and academic publications.
- Any other access or uses outside academic research/publications would need the museum’s approval. Requests for access should be sent by email to Prof P.M. Allison (pma9@leicester.ac.uk) with a brief description of proposed usage.
The authors would like to thank the AHRC for funding the Arch-I-Scan Project ( Grant AH/T001003/1)
We would also like to thank the Museum of London, and specifically their staff Roy Stephenson and Nicola Fyfe, for granting us access to the collection; Fiona Seeley (Museum of London Archaeology) for expert pottery advice and identification; Gabriel Florea and Alessandra Pegurri (University of Leicester post-graduate students) for helping with photography; and team member Victoria Szafara for her assistance in this photographing programme.
Please cite this dataset as
Núñez Jareño, S.J.; van Helden, D.P.; Mirkes, E.M.; Tyukin, I.Y.; Allison, P. Arch-I-Scan data repository. Museum of London vessel collection. https://github.com/ArchiScn/Collected_images, 2021.