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Rufio Tableware
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Pipeline
Camilo
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Antefia
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Wrist
Jug
glass ointment
Lantern
Stone
capital
Rufio Tableware

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Description

Dish base made in Italic terra sigillata, it belongs to a type of small dishes with a thin and low foot. The paste of the piece appears very well refined, intense pink in color and hard. On the outside of the bottom it has an incised graphite after firing, whose reading is RVFIO, made with irregular (9 x 4 mm) and rough scripts.

The graphite seems to be an onomastic reference addressed to the holder of the plate. Its reading offers two translations: if Rufio is considered as a dative of the nomen Rufius, it is translated "for Rufio", thus expressing the addressee to whom said piece is addressed; but if Rufio is considered as a nominative of the cognomen Rufio, something that tends to be more frequent in this type of graffiti, the translation would be "Rufion". This seems to be the most appropriate option, considering -o as a long vowel belonging to a third declension noun.


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