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shorter and more conical, its width increasing downwards instead 
of upwards. The mouldings on the mouthpiece have become less 
bold, and the number of rings of the ‘screw’ are reduced to four 
or three, in lieu of five or six as formerly. The handle is 
correspondingly shortened and perforce attached nearer to the 
mouth-piece, whence it curves to an extent that brings it near to 
the lower part of the neck (which has already begun to curve 
gradually outwards at its junction with the body) ; and the 
number of ribs on the handle are two or three only, divided by one 
or two vertical grooves. The width proportions of the body or 
holder have dwindled to less than 80 and 30 per cent, for bulge 
and base respectively, as shown in columns 2 and 3 of Table VI. 
for flagons of the late Flavian-Hadrianic period, derived from 
Newstead, York, Wiesbaden, Heddernheim (graves), Cologne, &c. 
A new type of flagon with elongated body (Koenen, XV., 15, 
Novasinm XXVII., n), had already appeared by the middle of the 
I. Century, yet the white flagons generally retained much of their 
early excellence down to the Hadrianic period (A.D. 117—138). 
Antonine Period, A.D. 138—192. 
During the Antonine period (A.D. 138—192) and down to the 
end of the II. and beginning of the III. Centuries, as illustrated 
by the discoveries at Newstead,"' Heddernheim (potteries),! 
N.ovaesivm, l Corbridge, &c., the white flagons lose their severity 
of outline, and to a great extent their serviceable proportions, and 
become rounded and featureless in all their parts, owing to inten¬ 
sive and careless production in late provincial potteries. The neck 
becomes still shorter and has a curved profile, and the handle is 
bent in a semi-circle to match ; the side walls of the neck are 
generally thicker than those of the body, which may account for 
neck and handle being so often preserved. On the outside no 
angle appears where neck and body unite, the high shoulder 
curving suddenly to meet the curve of the neck. The mouth¬ 
piece has become a mere thickening and outbending of the neck? 
with one or two weak mouldings on the outside and a slight groove 
or offset defining it. The handle is attached to the neck just 
* Curie, Newstead, Fig. 33, Nos. 8—14. 
t Welcker, Hedd. Mitteil. IV., p. 132 ff, plate 21, Nos. 27—31. 
X Novaesivm, pp. 315, 317, plate XX., 5, 9, p. 361, XXVII., 60, 
