Collection Item: Kettle

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Collection
Archaeology
Object name
Kettle
Object category
Roman
Description
Camp kettle. Described in Eboracum as "Camp kettle of bronze, 10 and 7/8in ins. diameter at the mouth and 10 and 3/8 ins. high, inscribed inside the rim with the names of two centuriae to which it belonged successively. Dredged out of the river Ouse in 1934. One inscription is punched in dots: >ATTI SEVERI 'The century of Attius Severus', the other is cut with a cold chisel: >C(...) APRILIS 'The century of C.... Aprilis'. Since the C before Aprilis must stand for a nomen, it was possible that this was Classicius Aprilis, the heir to another centurion of the Sixth, who set up [Eboracum inscription] no.78".
Production date start
43
Production date end
410
Period
Roman

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Identification

Object number
YORYM : H143
Number of objects
1
ID
11121

Physical Characteristics

Materials
Copper alloy (Whole)

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Place
York