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larg-er or smaller fragments of small, often nearly perfect, pots of 

 hard black ware of about the size of a large swan's egg, with the 

 smaller end truncated and flattened and the larger usually provided 

 with a recurved lip for tieing a cover over its contents. Now I have 

 never found any of the various and well-known varieties of Roman 

 funeral ware in a Roman rubbish-heap ; every article of daily life, 

 of the coarsest and of the finest kind, whether in pottery or metal, 

 may be found in such deposits ; but within my experience they 

 never contain anything which was destined for the tomb or could 

 bring to mind the invisas cupressos. It is obvious however that 

 such jars might be supposed to be intended for the cosmetic rather 

 than the culinary needs of the luxurious Ptomans. But for the 

 purposes indicated by Horace (Od. iii. 29) and Persius (Sat. iv. 37), 

 for the halanus capUlh and the halanatum gansape, finer ware than 

 that of these diminutive amphorse would, I think^ have been used, 

 for finer ware is usually present in abundance in such collections, 

 and was, as I have noted, I. c, specially abundant in the case speci- 

 fied; whilst^ as was pointed out to me by Mr. Wm. Hatchett Jackson, 

 of the University Museum, small jars of much the same contour, if 

 not of the same paste, are still largely used in the honey trade of 

 Narbonne. The sale of honey was amongst the patrias artes of the 

 Ligurian of the times of Diodorus and Strabo \ and fashions and 



' Diodorus (v. 34) \\Tites tlius of the Celtiberians (in the connection already referred 

 to, p. 635 supra) : Tpocpais Si xp^"'''^'- Kpio^oi TravToSairois Kal Sa'<fi\e(Ti zeal oivofxiXiros 

 irofxari, xoprjyovffrjs ttjs x'^P^^ "''" f^^^^ -naixirhrjOis. It may be an overstraining of the 

 words to suggest that the six last quoted may be considered to indicate that wild rather 

 than hive honey was in the mind of the writer. The words of his contemporary Strabo 

 are in a parallel passage (iv. 6, 2, p. 168, ed. Miiller, 1853) to the following efPect : — 

 Ai-yvis, (aifres dno Opififiarajv To TtXiov kcu ydXaKTOS Kal Kptdivov Trofiaros, Vf/xuixivot rd re 

 TTpos 6a\drTr],xc^p'ia Kal to irXiov rd oprj . . vKrjv ■napmoW'qv vavnr]yr](7i/xov Kal fifjaXoSti'Spov 

 . . . KaTayovaiJ' els to kpLitopioV Tfjv Ttvovav Kal BpifxpaTa Kal Beppara Kal p.i\i .... 

 TrXtovd^ei S« Kal to \tyyovpiov trap' avTois o Tives rjKiKpov rrpoaayop€vovai. 



M. Eseher vom Berg, Mittheil. Ant. Gesell. Zurich, Eapp. \\. Pfahlbauten, p. 34, 

 suggests that the straining of honey off the comb may have been the use to which 

 such perforated dishes as that figured by Keller, I. c, taf . v. fig. 26, p. 270, or ed. Lee, 

 pi. Iii. B, fig. 1. See also De'sor, Le Bel Age du Bronze, p. 12, fig. 22, and Schlie- 

 mann, Trojanische Alterthiimer, tab. 174, fig. 3377. Usually such perforations are 

 held to have been intended for filtering whey off curds, in accordance with the 

 Homeric words, Od. ix. 222, 223 :— 



Nafoi' 5' bp'Z dyyea vdvTa 

 TavXo'i Ti (TKafiSfs re TiTvyptva. 

 But, as hinted above, p. 705, we may suppose that in such descriptions as this we 

 have traditions of a much earlier period than those we are here concerned with, 

 preserved for us. It is right however to add that Herr Edmund v. Fellenberg, 

 Bericht liber die Pfahlbauten des Bielersees, S. A. 1875, pp. 55-61, suggests yet 

 another application, that of fumigation, for these vessels. Honey however is so 

 strained in certain Swiss valleys at the present day. 



