Me or mercer?

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no, used in the kitchen and the market.

Ian kitchen is, Market is out.

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I am just hinting that it could be found in the food market as well, but it was mainly used in the home.

A cake form of some sort...

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No it is really really old, over a thousand years.

is the device made of metal?

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I am just hinting that it could be found in the food market as well, but it was mainly used in the home.

Article I found said it was used by the tax man, but for food.

Roman, bronze?

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Roman, bronze? Yes.
Women used it between the kitchen and the market.
Name?

No

This is starting to look like some obscure museum piece.

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Well, we know that it is "very old" and sometimes used in the kitchen or at the market. I was going to guess Angela, but that looks nothing like her picture from what I remember!



Just teasin' Ang!

Was very common in the Roman world.

Would it be right to say today it would more likely be made of plastic or glass?

<ed> Roman men weren't in the kitchen?

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Well, we know that it is "very old" and sometimes used in the kitchen or at the market. I was going to guess Angela, but that looks nothing like her picture from what I remember!



Just teasin' Ang!

If she will not give you a wopping I will.

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Me or mercer?

Questions not anseweed Ian.

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This is starting to look like some obscure museum piece.

It may be in a museum now, but it was very common in the Roman world up until the fourth century.
Roman households used it to get things at the market to take to their homes. Used to measure the volume of dry goods such as grain. There, that is just about a giveaway. It has a name.
What else is not answered?

Got it. I get to sleep tonight.

modius



"Brass vessel used for measuring corn from Carvoran Roman fort (Northumberland), now in Chesters Roman fort museum. Inscribed with the name (later erased) and titles of the Emperor Domitian (81-96). It held 17 ½ sextarii of grain."

"For measuring corn a bronze vessel shaped rather like a bucket and called a modius was used, and one of these rare objects was discovered outside the fort of Carvoran on Hadrian's Wall and is now in the Chesters Museum. It bears an inscription saying it was made towards the end of the first century during the reign of the Emperor Domitian and that it holds 17½ sextarii or 16.8 pints. In actual fact it holds twenty pints and it has been suggested that this discrepancy was a mean device to defraud the farmers when they came to pay the corn tax (annona). On the other hand, Roman certified measures are usually accurate. Traces of rivet holes show that some attachments have been lost from the modius and these may have taken up the extra space."

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1 modius = 8.73 liters

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*What is it?
*What do you use it for?
*Bonus for the name.

Ok, off to bed... (^8

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Vegetable or fish sieve?

You are so very close but this time I am looking for what I believe is the American term. (Sorry, I am not sure if in the UK it is called by another name.)

*What is it?
*What do you use it for?
*Bonus for the name.

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