Abstract
IN spite of its unedifying character, the graffito herewith presented (fig. 1) is not without interest. It is inscribed on the upper surface of a plate of Arretine ware acquired years ago by the late Professor George N. Olcott, presumably in Rome, and presented by him to the museum of the Latin Department of Columbia University. The plate itself is signed by C. Gavius, a potter who worked at Arezzo and whose signature appears several times there and at Rome.Since he usually signed in a plain rectangle, as on our plate, he may be considered an Augustan craftsman, although his scattered use of stamps in the shape of the planta pedis, the tabella ansata, the framed rectangle and the circle, implies an extension of his activity into the principate of Tiberius. The shape of our plate (fig. 2) is consistent with an Augustan date.
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