Object

Accession No

1948.768

Description

Large flagon of buff ware (fragmentary but restored), with small annular foot, spheroidal body, vertical neck and boldly everted lip, two strap-handles with no central groove. Graffito between the handles: PISI MIIS. Translating to 'Two and a half modii of peas'.

Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Essex; Great Chesterford

Period

Roman

Source

Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]

Department

Arch

Reference Numbers

1948.768; 485 [Braybrooke Coll.]; RIB 2503.5

Cultural Affliation

Material

Ceramic; Pottery

Local Term

Measurements

Events

Context (References)
Neville, R.C. (1860). 'Recent Discoveries of Roman Remains at Great Chesterford, Essex.' Archaeological Journal, vol. xvii. p. 126 (illustrated)
Event Date 1860
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Field collection)
From 15 ft shaft at Chesterford, January 1860; same shaft as 1948.764 (Coarse ware flagon)
Event Date 1/1860
Author: maa

Context (References)
Hübner, Aemilivs (ed.). (1876). Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. Volume VII: Inscriptiones Britanniae Latinae. 1332.5
Event Date 1876
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Large flagon of buff ware (fragmentary but restored), with small annular foot, spheroidal body, vertical neck and boldly everted lip, two strap-handles with no central groove. Graffito on shoulder reading ?PISI IIS?
Event Date 1948
Author: maa

Description (Inscription)
Frere and Tomlin (1995): 'Pisi m(odii) ii s(emis)' translating to 'Two and a half modii of peas'.
Event Date 1995
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Analysis)
Frere and Tomlin (1995) note: 'For peas in Roman military diet, see R.W. Davies, 'Service in the Roman Army' (1989), 199. Barred M for modii occurs in the Vindolanda tablets and on RIB 2492.7 and 2494.44' (p. 30)
Event Date 1995
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Frere and Tomlin (1995): 'Graffito between the handles: PISI MIIS.'
Event Date 1995
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Collingwood, R.G. and Wright, R.P. (1995). The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Frere, S.S. and Tomlin, R.S.O. (eds.), Volume II (Instrumentum Domesticum), Fascicule 8 (Graffiti on Coarse Pottery Cut Before and After Firing; Stamp on Coarse Pottery). RIB 2502-2505. Stroud: Alan Sutton. p. 30 (RIB 2503.5)
Event Date 1995
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Large flagon of buff ware (fragmentary but restored), with small annular foot, spheroidal body, vertical neck and boldly everted lip, two strap-handles with no central groove. Graffito between the handles: PISI MIIS. Translating to 'Two and a half modii of peas'.
Event Date 16/5/2023
Author: Imogen Gunn

FM:61159