Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c6.s1.19

c6.s1.19

Chandravalli in northern Mysore, where a denarius of Tiberius, dated A.D. 26-37, was found with closely derivative pottery and near actual rouletted sherds. The characteristic shape is a dish, sometimes more than 12 inches in diameter, with an incurved and beaked rim and two or three concentric rings of rouletted pattern on the flat interior base. This pattern is not an Indian feature and is certainly derived, like the associated Arretine, from the Mediterranean. The fabric is grey or black, has often a remarkably smooth surface, is usually thin, brittle and well-burnt, with almost a metallic ring. The better examples are doubtless imported;