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generally accepted systems of naming and dating. Mr. Walters 
has also looked over the proofs. 
The numbers employed for specifying the shapes of the vessels 
are those suggested by Dragendorff and Dechelette, and also by 
Mr. Walters himself, and represented on four plates at the end of 
the catalogue referred to. 
Rutenian Fabric. 
The arrangement and dating of the terra sigillata specimens 
imported from Gaul (i Rutenian and 2 Lezoux fabrics') are mainly 
those proposed by Dechelette, whose conclusions are derived from 
excavations on the sites of the potteries in Southern and Central 
France, and the discovery of moulds, potters’ waste, and vast 
quantities of fragments bearing over 3,000 potters’ names stamped 
upon them. These names, when found even in remote localities, 
leave no doubt as to the origin of the vases and fragments. 
The most important centre of manufacture of this class of ware 
during the first century of our era, not only in the Gaulish pro¬ 
vinces, but in the whole Roman Empire, was at La Graufesenque, 
near Rodez, in the department of Aveyron (the ancient Conda- 
tomagus in the territory of the Ruteni). This and the small 
contemporary and dependant pottery at Montans are both situated 
upon the Tarn, a tributary of the Garonne, by which their pro¬ 
ductions had access to the great trade route leading both north 
and south by Narbo and Corbulo. 
The carinated or angular-sided bowl, form 29 Dragendorff, and 
the cup with sides expanding in a double curve, form 27, are the 
characteristic productions of these potteries during the period of 
their activity from about a.d. 30 to 100, but other forms (the 
upright bowl, form 30; the rounded bowl, form 37; and the cup, 
form 33, with straight sloping sides) were exported thence towards 
the end of the century. The ware is distinguishable by its careful 
finish, and glossy, highly vitrified, dark-red paste and glaze. Six 
examples of the ornamental bowl, form 29 (though all of them 
imperfect or partly restored from fragments), in case D, are 
separately described and illustrated on account of their rarity and 
importance. The names of thirty-six of the potters of these 
two localities taken from the published lists in Wellbeloved's 
“Eburacum,” p. 128, and the “Corpus,” Vol. VII. (both of them 
incomplete at the present date) are given. 
