Description (Labels & Markings)
Both pieces are marked 'Ickleton CAMBS' in white ink and one has a label affixed which reads 'Ickleton Villa'.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (Field collection)
Ickleton villa, 1848
Event Date 1848
Author: maa

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Context (References)
Neville, R.C. (1849). 'Memoir on Roman Remains and Villas Discovered at Ickleton and Chesterford, In the Course of Recent Excavations by the Hon. Richard C. Neville, F.S.A.' Archaeological Journal, vol. 4. pp. 14-26.
Event Date 1849
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Roach Smith, C. (1849). 'Recent Discoveries made at Ickleton and Chesterford on the Borders of Essex and Cambridgeshire, by the Hon. R. C. Neville, F.S.A., etc.'. Journal of the British Archaeological Association. vol. IV. p. 364. (illustrated)
Event Date 1849
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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Context (References)
Hübner, Aemilivs (ed.). (1876). Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. Volume VII: Inscriptiones Britanniae Latinae. 1335.7
Event Date 1876
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Inscription)
Haverfield (1915): 'ex ha]c amici bibun[t' translated 'from this cup, friends drink'.
Event Date 1915
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Haverfield, F. (1915). The Romanization of Roman Britain, 3rd edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 33, fig. 8
Event Date 1915
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Analysis)
Haverfield (1915) saw this sherd when it was still at Audley End and notes: 'too little remains of the jar to fix its date; it does not suggest the later Empire.'
Event Date 1915
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Fox, Cyril. (1923). The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 208
Event Date 1923
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Physical description)
Part of mouth and rim of large greyware vessel, probably a beaker, with everted lip, short upright neck bearing engraved inscription C AMICI BIBVN(T)
Event Date 23/3/1993
Author: maa

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Description (Physical description)
Frere and Tomlin (1995): 'Part of the everted rim and neck of a grey jar. Two graffiti, (a) on the lip: III; (b) in the hollow of the neck: [...]ICAMICIBIBVN[...]'
Event Date 1995
Author: Imogen Gunn

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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. 49 (RIB 2503.103)
Event Date 1995
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Inscription)
Frere and Tomlin (1995): Two graffiti, (a): 'Three' and (b): [h]ic amici bibun[t], 'Friends drink here'
Event Date 1995
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Physical description)
A rim sherd of a large drinking cup with the inscription 'CAMICI BIBVN' just below the rim, engraved with a sharp tool.
Event Date 24/6/2014
Author: maa

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Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2023.5698 | Remedial
Event Date 16/5/2023
Author: Kirstie French

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Description (Physical description)
Part of mouth and rim of large greyware vessel, probably a beaker, with everted lip, short upright neck. Two graffiti: on the rim (III) 'three' and on the neck ([...]ICAMICIBIBVN[...]) 'friends drink here'
Event Date 16/5/2023
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Exhibition (Li Ka Shing Gallery)
EXH.2023.12 | Beneath Our Feet: Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
Event Date 21/6/2023
Author: Imogen Gunn