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Empress pepper pot
The Hoxne hoard pepper pot,〔(Hoxne hoard pepper pot ), British Museum, accessed June 2010〕 commonly known as the Empress pepper pot, although it now seems not to represent an empress, is a silver ''piperatorium'', partially gilded, dating from around 400 AD. It was found as part of the Hoxne Hoard in Hoxne, Suffolk, in November 1992, and is now in the British Museum, where it is normally on display. It is a hollow silver statuette of the top half of a woman's body, with a mechanism to allow ground pepper or spices to be loaded into its base and then shaken out. The mechanism does not grind the pepper and has a rotatable disc with three positions. One position allows filling, another has fine holes to allow ground pepper out and another allows the pot to be closed.〔 The pot was chosen as part of the 2010 BBC Radio 4 series, ''A History of the World in 100 Objects'', as item 40.〔(Hoxne pepper pot ), BBC, accessed June 2010〕
==Pepper pots in Roman archaeology==
''Piperatoria'' are unusual in Roman archaeology.〔 Four, including the Empress, were found in the Hoxne Hoard in England. These pepperpots are thought to have contained pepper or some other expensive spice. The evidence for pepper in particular has been drawn from mineralised black pepper which has been found at three sites recovered in the 1990s and from the Vindolanda tablets, which record the purchase of it for two ''denarii'' near Hadrian's Wall.〔(Vindolanda Tablets Online Database: TVII Tablet: 184 )〕 Other sites have revealed food flavourings including coriander, poppyseed, celery, dill, summer savoury, mustard and fennel. The existence of yet other flavourings is known from translations of surviving recipes.
Two 'pepper casters' were found at the House of Menander in Pompeii but these are ill-suited to setting upon a table, leading to suggestions that they were in fact used to sample wine rather than spread pepper. The only items which are unquestionably Roman ''piperatoria'' are all dated after 250 AD; they have been found at a number of locations: at Place Camille-Jouffres in Vienne, France; among the Chaourse Treasure in the Aisne département, France;〔British Museum Collection()〕 at Nicolaevo in Bulgaria;〔 and one of uncertain provenance, thought to be from Sidon.
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