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ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
2. Neck and Handle of Ewer (oinochce) in imitation of bronze. 
This fragment is skilfully imitated from a bronze prototype in hard white 
terra cotta tinted superficially to a delicate shade of light brown. The neck 
expands gracefully upwards to a trumpet shaped mouth, bordered by a sharp 
edged upright rim to which the handle is connected by lhe heads of two long- 
beaked water-birds partly encircling it. The outlines of the heads are incised 
and the eyes painted in dull red. A spirula is incised at the base of each bird’s 
neck. The apex of the handle has a thumb-knob, and down the outside are 
rude reliefs representing a human face, crescent and other ornaments. The 
lower end no doubt had a human face or figure in the usual way, but this like 
the rest of the body is broken away. Just below the lip are five sharply incised 
girth-grooves, and two others lower down the neck. 
Two similar handles are figured and described by Dechelette, 
II., p. 316, plate VIII., 1, 2, in clay and technique identical with 
the white figurines found by him on the site of the potteries at 
Vichy, and he concludes that the ewers were made while the 
potteries were at work there during the I. and II. Centuries. 
An example of the bronze prototype, showing the shape of the 
vessel when complete, which was recovered from an early pit 
LVII., at Newstead, is represented on plate LVI. and described 
on p. 275 of Mr. James Curie’s recently published volume, and 
indicates the end of the I. Century as the probable date of both 
bronze prototype and terra cotta imitation. 
3. Side Fragment of a large Two-handled Vase. 
Fine creamy-white clay well polished externally. 
Corniced rim composed of an ovolo moulding and row of dentils. The 
upper half of the body is nearly upright, widening gradually downwards ; the 
lower half slightly bulged. There are marks on the rim moulding made by the 
outside edge of the roulette used to form the dentils. Mouth dia. 74-g ins. 
The moulded rim and upright handles indicate this to be a 
late and exaggerated form of the Cantharus sacred to Bacchus. 
Cf. Plate XX., Nos. 1 and 2. 
Plate XVII. 
4. Two-handled Pitcher (lagena), Type 52 Lceschcke. 
Hard smooth pipe-clay, externally polished. 
Body globular, with two shallow girth-grooves at the lower attachment of 
the handles, which are two-ribbed and semicircularly bent. Short neck, expand¬ 
ing to a slightly thickened lip without moulding, but defined by two incised 
grooves. Base beaded, ringed, and carefully turned off beneath. 
Height 7J ins., diam. of bulge 7 in., base 2| in., height of neck in. 
Proportions, 25 : 97 : 38. 
It resembles one found at Weisbaden, ORL XXXI., plate XIII. 
14 (A.D. 83—123) and, being of somewhat slighter proportions, 
probably dates from about A.D. 150. 
