A Roman pepper-pot in the form of a reclining ibex. Gilded silver with blue glass eye. One of four pepper-pots from the late Roman Hoxne Hoard, Suffolk, buried early C5th AD. Pepper was imported to the Roman world from India.
— Alison Fisk (@AlisonFisk) March 5, 2021
Image: British Museum. Museum no: 1994,0408.35 pic.twitter.com/OnA9MK6ndY
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