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Jug for garum 

Jug for garum

Jug for garum

Ceramic

Marketplace in the Forum, Pompeii

According to the inscription on this jug or urceus — LIQVAMEN OPTIMUM PHOEBO-RHEMBI-AVG-LIB DISP — ‘The best-quality fish sauce is dispensed by Phoebus Rhembi, Augustan freedman’.

SAP No: 12377

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