22 
ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
Plate XVIII. 
10. Honey Pot (urceus or olla), type 62, Lceschcke. 
Light-red clay. 
Flat square-edged rim, boldly out-bulged body, with shallow girth-grooves, 
three above and one below, between the attachments of the upright loop handles. 
Height 7f ins., diams. of rim 4^ ins., bulge 7-gU ins., base 2% ins. 
Proportions 54 : 92 : 36, which are approximately those of vessels attributed 
by Schumacher, {Alter, u. h. Vorzeit , heft V, band 5, pp. 161— 164), to the second 
half of the I. Cent. (See Table VIII.) 
11. Honey Pot (urceus or olla), type 62, Loeschcke. 
Form regularly ovoid. Obliquely inclined rim ; beaded foot ; girth-grooves 
between the two upright loop handles. 
Height ins., diams. of rim 6f ins., bulge gf ins., base 4J ins. 
Proportions, 57: 83: 38. 
The proportions are nearly those of vessels attributed by 
Schumacher, Op. cit. to the first half of the I. Century, but the 
handles are smaller and lower down than usual on vessels of this 
early period. (See Table VIII.) 
Inscriptions incised upon no fewer than ten similar vessels 
indicating their name, their weight when empty and full, and the 
nature of their contents, are recorded. Two of the most im¬ 
portant are— 
(1) YRPVS. VRCEVS et MEL P XXVII. 
Urceus Pondo VS(emis). Urceus et Mel P(ondo) xxvii. 
Indicating the vessel to be an urceus weighing 5^- Roman librce 
when empty, and 27 when full, and that it contained 21 £ libra 
weight of honey. 
Behn, CIL XIII., IIP, 1, p. 90, No. 44. 
Schumacher, Alt.-u-h-Vorzeit, band Ah, heft V., p. 163. 
(2) OLLA MEL. (Olla. honey). 
Indicating that the name of olla was also used for the same kind of 
vessel containing hone} T . 
Reims Mus. Cat. No. 4564; Behn, Rom Keramik, p. 221, Nos. 
1474—8. 
Schumacher, Ali.-u-h-Vorzeit, band V.,heft Ah, p. 161 f. Plate 29. 
Nos. 504—511. 
505. PIIIIS = 1*475 Kg., present weight 1*44 Kg. CIL No. 62. 
508. PXAHIS — 5*760 Ivg., present weight 4*560 Kg. 
509. PXII — 4*075 Kg., present weight 3*939 Kg. 
CIL XIII., III., p. 86 ff. 
