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and the first half of the 3rd the Lezoux ware must have 

 been manufactured and exported in enormous quantities. 

 There were other factories at Rheinzabern and "Western- 

 dorf in the Rhine valley, but the potters' names are con- 

 elusive evidence that the bulk of the good Terra Sigillata 

 vases in "Western Europe came from the workshops of 

 Southern and Central Gaul. The manufacture of the 

 ware seems to end about 260 — 270 A.D., probably when 

 Gaul was overrun by ruder Teutonic invaders.^ 



This Gallic ware, as a whole, is coarser than the Arretine 

 both in technique and design, although the classical forms 

 of ornament still survive unaffected by the late Celtic art 

 of Gaul. The distinction between the Graufesenque and 

 the Lezoux fabric can be drawn by comparison of the 

 potters' names, which are often impressed with a stamp on 

 either the inside or the outside of the vases, by the types 

 of ornament, and by the characteristic shapes of the vases 

 most commonly made at the two centres. The method of 

 ornamenting the vases with reliefs by pressing them into 

 a mould necessitates that the common form should always 

 be that of an open bowl decorated on the outside. Three 

 principal types of bowls are found, outlined in Fig. 1, 

 Avhich in accordance with Dragendorff's enumeration of 

 shapes are known as nos. 29, 30 and 37. No. 29 is char- 

 acteristic of Graufesenque; no. 30 is common in the first 

 century B.C., but also is used later; no. 37 is in general 

 characteristic of Lezoux, though early forms appear at 

 Graufesenque. 



There is no evidence for any manufacture of Terra 

 Sigillata in Britain, and the examples of the ware that 

 have been found at Melandra probably all come from 

 Gaul. Bowls of shape 29 are found in Britain as far north 



6. Cf., e.g., Gibbon, Decline and Fall, chapter 10. 



