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(b) Plain clay-bodied vessels of coarse texture. 
Plate XX. 
1. Two-handled Pedestalled Cup (cantHants), form 53, Drag. 
Common soft brick-red clay (unglazed). 
Vertical handles, with horn-shaped thumb-rests at the upper and plain rings 
at the lower attachments, connect the trumpet-shaped mouth and globular body. 
The pedestal has a straight stem equally divided by a collar moulding, and a 
bell-mouthed foot with beaded margin. 
Height 75 ins., diams. of body 3! ins., inside of rim 2f ins. 
This crude imitation of a popular Italian model gives no indica¬ 
tion of date. A similar example in the Trier Provincial Museum, 
05-142 was found with other vessels in a grave dated by Dr. 
Kruger a.d. 300—350. It resembles in shape the sacred vessels 
represented on monuments of Mithras worship, and the horns may 
be rough indications of the heads of serpents on the handles of 
such vessels. Cf. Schumacher, Alt.-u-h-Vovzeit, V., heft IX., plate 
52. 964 ; Behn, Rdmische Kevamik , 1218, form 396 ;—these being 
moss-green enamel glazed vessels with figured ornamentation en 
barbotine , of II. Century type. 
It is constantly associated, on the monuments, with the wine- 
god Dionysos (Bacchus) as one of his attributes. 
2. Wide-mouthed Two-handled Mixing Bowl, or “ loving 
cup,” form 352, Behn. 
Soft unglazed brick-red clay. 
Vertical out-bent handles joining a double-moulded rim and slightly out- 
bulged lower portion, which is divided from the nearly cylindrical upper half by 
an offset. 
Height 6f ins., diams. erf rim 5§ ins,, bulge 5f ins , base 2-pt ins. 
A vessel of similar form with poor red sigillata-like glaze found 
at Dunapentele in Hungary is attributed to the III.—IV. Century 
by Behn, Rdmische Kevamik , No. 1239, form 352. 
Kcenen, p. 99, XV., 27, states that the form was common in the 
Antonine period (a.d. 140—190) and probably employed in the 
worship of Mithras. It is therefore a late and degenerate form of 
the Cantharus. 
3. Short-necked Flask with handle. 
Light pinkish-red soft clay. 
Wide flat square-edged rim, nearly cylindrical body with rounded angles. 
Height 6 ins., neck 14 in.; diams. of body 3-W ins.—244 ins. 
The form is more frequently found in glass. Cf. Hettner, 
Fiihrer durch Trier Prov. Mils., p. 109, No. 30. 
