INTRODUCTION. 
List of Pottevs of La Graufeseuque and Montans. 
ACVTVS, ALB VS, ATTIVS, AVITVS, CAIVS, CARILLVS, CASTVS, 
CENSOR, COELIVS, COLONVS, COSIVS, RVFINVS, LCOSIVS, 
VIRILIS, FRONTIN VS, IANVARIVS, MARTIVS, MEDDILLVS, 
MONTICVS, MONTAN VS, NIGER, PATRICVS, PAVLLVS, TONTIVS, 
PRIMVS, QVINTVS, RVFVS, SECVNDVS, SEVERVS, SILVANVS, 
SILVINVS, VIRILIS, VIRTVS, VITALIS. 
Twenty-four of these names are contained in the list of stamps 
s 
derived from the great legionary camp at Neuss (NOVAESIVM) 
dating from about a.d. 25 to 105 (Bonner Jahrbuecher, 111-2, 1904, 
pp. 336-351), and six are in the list of those found at Hofheim 
a.d. 40-60 ; clear indications of the early date assignable to the 
Roman occupation of York. 
Lezoux Fabric. 
The productive centre of Lezoux is in Auvergne (the ancient 
territory of the Arverni) on the banks of the Allier, a tributary of 
the Loire. It thus possessed more direct access to British markets 
than the preceding for its varied products, which are represented 
by many fragments of bowls and cups bearing potters’ stamps in 
cases D. E. F. The commoner forms and types of ornamentation 
and the approximate dates of their production at Lezoux, as deter¬ 
mined b} 7 Dechelette and adopted by Walters, Catalogue, xxxiii. 
are the following:—• 
1. a.d. 40-75. Bowls, form 29. Patterns and no figures. 
2. ,, 75-110. Bowls, forms 30 and 37. Transitional orna¬ 
ment (—the double friezes of form 29 applied to bowl 37) 
and panels (or metopes) framing figures. 
3. ,, 110-200? Similar forms. Arcading, large wreaths or 
scrolls, medallions, friezes of free figures. 
The dish, form 31 (with oblique-plane sides), and cup, form 33, 
along with the preceding Nos. 2 and 3, are typical of the 2nd 
century, and bear more potters’ stamps than any others. 
As a result of the competition between the two centres which 
began about a.d. 70, the exportation to Britain of the earlier 
Rutenian fabrics almost entirely ceased about the beginning of the 
2nd century. It is thought probable (Walters Joe. cit.) that the 
manufacture of ornamental bowls of the form 37 was discontinued 
