ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
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5. Amphora, form Bohn 85, Kcenen XV. 18. 
Drab smooth pipe-clay. 
Body roughly ovoid (drooped) and distorted, with marks all over of careless 
throwing. Underbase domed inwards and grooved. Handles of roughly square 
section (ill-formed) and joined at the lower attachments by a shallow double 
girth-groove. Thin-edged lip. 
Height 8f ins., dia. of bulge 5! ins., base 2 \ ins. 
Proportions, 20': 61 : 28. 
Kcenen, p. 98, XV. 18, represents this as one of the commonest 
forms in the Antonine and later grave-fields,—(A.D. 140—190) 
onwards. 
Behn, Rom. Kevamik , form 80, Nos. 775—6, 1753— 4 ’—^ rst half 
of III. Century. 
Lehner, Novcesium, p. 316, XX., 7, circa 200 A.D. and 18—19, 
second half of III Century. 
The form is therefore characteristic of the late Roman period, 
from the end of the II. to the beginning of the V. Century. 
6. One-handled Flask. 
Long straight neck with double-moulded funnel shaped mouth-piece, and 
two shallow grooves at the upper joining of the handle. Pear-shaped body with 
beaded foot and hollow turned base. Flat three ribbed handle, bent at a right 
angle, joining the middle of the neck and shoulder. 
Hard, smooth, light brown clay. 
Height 9^ ins., neck 4 ins., dia. of body 54 ins., base z\ ins. 
The form is well profiled and proportioned, and often met with 
in the glass flasks ornamented with serpentine threads of the early 
III. Century. Cf. Kisa, Die Antiken Glaser , zu Koln, plate VI., 56, 
60; XXVIII., 226, 227. Hettner, Fiihrer durch Prov. Mas. in Trier , 
p. 109, No. 10. 
WHITE FLAGONS. 
Synonyms : jug, pitcher, water-bottle, flask ; German, krug ; 
French, flacon , cruche , ampoule ; Latin, lagena , ampulla ; Greek, 
Xayrjvos. 
As the nearest to the Latin original lagena p if not directly derived 
therefrom, the name of flagon is here preferred to any otherwise 
# LAGENA is employed by Walters for a long-necked, one-handled flask of 
terra sigillata, Cat. p. 74, M 131. Instances of two-handled pitchers inscribed with 
their Latin name LAGONA and LAGVNA are cited by Curie, Newstead, p. 267. 
The old English name of flagon has also been revived recently in connection with 
Colonial wines sold in similar big-bellied bottles. 
