The Supply of Campanian‐madesigillatato the City of Pompeii

Pompeii is an important temporal reference in the study of Roman ceramics, yet until now the origins of red slip tableware orsigillatafound in the city have largely been classified by visual evaluations of the pottery. This investigation employs petrographic and elemental analyses to establish the provenance ofsigillatafound in two pre–ad79 contexts of Pompeii. In contrast to previous studies, the results suggest that pottery workshops in the vicinity of Somma‐Vesuvius played a vital role in the supply ofsigillatato the city.