Drawings Roman pottery from London

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.166

Artist/Designer/Maker

Kempe, Alfred John - Artist

Production date

1831
1832

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 200mm
Width: 322mm

Inscriptions

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One of several Roman Mortars found at St. Michael's Crooked Lane
Light coloured earthen ware very hard and compact.

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Pestle also earthen ware 'Pishilli's frumentum conterito. Columella

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Diameter of the Mortar 14 Inches

Thickness ½ an inch

Potters mark on one of the Mortars

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These vesels were most probably used for the [illegible] of Corn.

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A.J.K.

References

Reference (free text)

Alfred John Kempe, 'An Account of Various Roman Antiquities Discovered on the Site of the Church of St Michael, Crooked Lane, and in Eastcheap, in Forming the Northern Approaches of the New London Bridge', Archaeologia 24 (1832): 190-202. Illustrations, figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5, pl. XLIV, between pp. 202 and 203.