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Indirect evidence for the antiquity of the name "Thames" is provided by a Roman [[potsherd]] found at Oxford, bearing the inscription ''Tamesubugus fecit'' (Tamesubugus made [this]). It is believed that Tamesubugus' name was derived from that of the river.<ref>Henig M. & Booth P. (2000). ''Roman Oxfordshire'', pp.118–119</ref> Tamese was referred to as a place, not a river in the [[Ravenna Cosmography]] ({{circa|AD 700}}).
The river's name has always been pronounced with a simple ''t'' {{IPA|/t/}}; the [[Middle English]] spelling was typically {{lang|enm|Temese}} and the Brittonic form ''Tamesis''. A similar spelling from 1210, "Tamisiam" (the accusative case of "Tamisia"; see {{slink|Kingston upon Thames|Early history}}), is found in [[Magna Carta]].<ref>{{cite book |editor-first=Ellis |editor-last=Sandoz |title=The Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta... |location=Indianapolis |publisher=Amagi/Liberty Fund |pages=39, 347}}</ref>
[[File:Thames by Anne Seymour Damer.JPG|thumb|right|Sculpture of Tamesis. Downstream [[keystone (architecture)|keystone]] of the central arch of [[Henley Bridge]]]]
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