PART I.—CONTINENTAL. 
B. Plain Wares (Miscellaneous). 
i. Vases with Incised Decoration. 
The York specimens of this rare description of sigillata ware are 
exceptionally fine and numerous, and have been derived from 
Lezoux, the only one of the potteries in Central and Southern 
Gaul in which it was produced. An inferior kind found at 
Vermand (Eck, Les deux cemetieres gallo-romans de Vermand et de St. 
Quentin , 1891, p. 146, plate X., 9) and Boulogne (Sauvage, Notes 
d'archeologie gallo-romaine. Boulogne, s.d. p. 9) was made in the 
north or east of Gaul. 
The incised patterns (consisting of oval and circular facets, 
grooves, stars, and even animals), are in imitation of the technique 
of glass vases with ornaments wheel-cut on their surface. Deche- 
lette, II., p. 312. 
The usual forms are ollae (form 72), bowls (form 41), and jars 
with pedestailed foot (form 52) ; but deversoria, or upright sided 
rnortaria, were also manufactured at Lezoux. Dechelette, II., 
plate VI. 
Association with barrel-shaped glass bottles with two handles 
bearing the mark of Frontinus (FRON) in the cemeteries of 
Vermand and Boulogne, fix the date of the incised pottery from 
the northern centre as of the end of the III. and beginning of the 
IV. centuries ; to the beginning of the III. century belongs that of 
superior technique from Lezoux. Dechelette, op. cit. p. 313. 
According to Kcenen,.p. 112, plate XVIII., 21, it is found only in 
late Roman grave fields, A.D. 250 and later. The productions of 
Lezoux must, however, belong to a date preceding the destruction 
of the potteries about A.D. 259. 
Walters, Cat. xlviii., M 155—9, M 2380—96. 
Dragendorft, Bonn. Jahrb., XCVI., p. 122, plate III., 41. 
Illustrations of Roman London, p. 93. 
