A pastry mold of roman time with circus scene found in Septem Fratres (Ceuta)

Abstract

A recent archaeological intervention in the urban center of Ceuta has allowed the documentation of a sector of the dry fish industrial complex of the Roman settlement of Septem Fratres, dated between the end of the 1st century AD. and the first quarter of the fifth century AD. To the east of the wall that delimited the workspace and the pools for fish maceration, a stratigraphic sequence was identified in which stood out a level of the third century AD, characterized by the high number and variety of archaeological material. Among these elements of material culture was recovered a mold of pastry, known as “kuchenformn”. The motif that appears on the back of the mold is a scene of ludi circenses.