History of ancient pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Based on the work of Samuel Birch (1905)
Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp), 1867-1944, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885. History of ancient pottery · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 519
ROMAN POTTERY 466 ago near the Hotel Dieu, Paris.1 2 It bore two inscriptions round the body, one on either side, with letters in relief ; on one side was OSPITA REPLE LAGONA CERVESA, “Mine host, fill the flask with beer ” ; on the other, COPO CNODI TV ABES EST REPLETA, “ Innkeeper, (?), be off, it… … Roman barmaid carried a lagena at her side when serving in the tavern,7 and it was used as a wine-jug at the table.8 A jar found at Saintes in France has engraved on it MARTI A LI SOL(*)DAM LAGONAM, “ A whole flask to Martialis,” 9 and 5 Pliny, H.N. xvi. 128. 1 Rev. Arch, xviii. (1868), pi. 22, c…
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