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ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
Plate IX. 
ii. Base-fragment of tall vase, with pedestal foot. 
Round the body a portion of the scroll ornament with leaves. 
Such vessels were ornamented with leaves, scrolls, and grotesque 
animal forms en bavbotine and appeared in the Constantine period 
(early IV. Century), Kcenen, p. hi, XVIII., 16. Cf. Walters, 
Cat.. M 2431, fig. 236. 
Plate IX. 
12. Partly restored beaker or goblet, form 54. 
Thin hard paste, coated with bronze coloured glaze of metallic lustre. 
In a middle band round the body defined by rows of dots, slender stalks 
ending in leaves and spikes of blossom, cn barbotine. 
Walters, M 140, plate XIX. 
Plate VIII. 
5. Fragment, including base and one handle, of two-handled 
cup, form 9. 
Hard dark brown paste coated with dark red-brown glaze of metallic lustre. 
Round the upright side, portion of a scroll with leaves cn barbotine. 
Walters, Cat. M 2438, fig. 239. 
This is one of the types of Roman earthenware vessels from the 
Pudding-Pan Rock, off the coast of Kent, described in the Pvoc. 
Soc. Antiq., 2 Ser., XXI., p. 268, fig. 1, believed by Mr. Reg. Smith, 
to be part of the cargo of a vessel wrecked between A.D. 160 
and 190. 
3. Rhenish Ware. 
The so-called Rhenish ware, which is represented in York 
Museum by four whole vessels and fragments, usually occurs in 
the form of thin-sided, round-bodied beakers or goblets with 
cylindrical neck and high foot, which become taller and slenderer 
in proportion according as they appear at a later date, but jugs 
and flasks are often met with. They are coated with brown, red 
or black glaze of metallic lustre, on which inscriptions of con¬ 
vivial character and simple ornamentation are applied in opaque 
white slip. 
The inscriptions found at York are AXASI, DAMI, MISCEMI, 
VIVATIS Handbook of York Museum , p. 99, XB. C.I.L., XIII., 
pars. III., fasc. II., p. 532, 10018, gives a list of inscriptions of 
similar character found in the three Gaulish and two German 
provinces. 
