Dish

Bottom of the plate made of Italic terra sigillata, it belongs to a type of small plates with a thin and low base. The paste of the piece appears very well refined, intense pink in color and hard; The coating is adherent and dense, quite covering and of optimal quality, very shiny and intense red in color (2.5 YR 4/8 of the Munsell Soil Chart).

On the outside of the bottom there is a graphite incised after firing, whose reading is RVFIO, made with irregular (9 x 4 mm) and crude writing.

The graphite seems to be an onomastic reference addressed to the owner of the plate. Its reading, analyzed according to its morphosyntactic structure, offers two translations: if Rufio is considered as a dative of the nomen Rufius, it is translated "for Rufio", thus expressing the recipient to whom said piece is addressed; but if Rufio is considered as the nominative of the cognomen Rufio, something that tends to be more frequent in this type of graffiti, the translation would be "Rufión". This seems to be the most appropriate option, considering -o as a long vowel belonging to a noun of the third declension.