Names on Terra Sigillata. Volume 5. L to MASCLUS II (BICS Supplement 102.5) : University of London : 9781905670260 : 10 May 2010 : Names on Terra Sigillata, the product of 40 years of study, records over 5,000 names and some 300,000 stamps and signatures on Terra Sigillata (samian ware) manufactured in the 1st to the 3rd centuries AD in Gaul, the German provinces and Britain. To be published in 10 volumes, the work has been supported by the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the University of Leeds and the University of Reading, and the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum.  This is the first catalogue of its type to appear since Felix Oswald's Index of Potters' Stamps on Terra Sigillata (?Samian Ware'), published in 1931. The importance of samian as a tool for dating archaeological contexts and the vast increase in samian finds since then has prompted the authors to record the work of the potters in greater detail, illustrating, whenever possible, each indiv