ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
45 
Plate IV. 
A.—Ornamented Red Wares, continued. 
4. — Red Glazed Ware with Applique Reliefs. 
Lezoux Fabric of Third Century. 
Oll^ (form 72). Dechelette, II., p. 171, fig. a. 
The paste and glaze are those of the moulded vases. The date of the 
commoner forms 72 and 45, is fixed by the finding of a coin of Commodus, 
struck between a.d. 185 and 192, and a square glass bottle with the letters 
MCHR in the mouth of one of them used as a cinerary urn. 
Walters’ Catalogue, xlvii., m 2365 — 2376, Lezoux fabric of 3rd 
century. 
Dragendorff, p. 252, plate xxvi., 31-33. 
“Guildhall Mus. Cata.,” p. 100, Nos. 549, 550, plate xlvii ., 1,2, 
p. 99, Nos. 517, 521. 
“ Illustrations of Roman London,” p. 97. 
Smith's “ Catalogue of London Antiquities,” p. 30, plate vn. 
Form 45 (Deversoria). 
Walters’ Catalogue, xlviii., m 2244-7. 
1. Fragment of Shallow Bowl (form 45) deversovium? Arretine 
fabric, cf. Walters’ Cat., l 161 —166. 
Figures in high relief, moulded separately and applied to the upright side of 
the vessel. The moulded designs are—(1) River god reclining, his r. arm thrown 
over his head, and 1 . arm encircling a projecting spout. (2) Crater with godroon 
ornament and heaped with fruit on which a bird is settling. (3) Cupid with 
arms outstretched running to r. 
2. Fragment of Olla (form 72). 
Large portion of one applied figure—Paris, in short mantle and Phrygian 
bonnet holding the apple in his r. and a long staff {pedum) in his 1. hand. 
3. Fragment of Wide-mouthed Bowl. 
Brown paste with darker brown-red glaze. Coarsely moulded reliefs at wide 
intervals round the middle of the bulge, of which the two remaining are—(1) 
Mask of Pan (Dechelette, II. p. 25, 108). (2) Pine-cone (Dechelette, II. p. 234, 
159 )- 
4. Fragment of Olla (form 72). 
Round the body leaves moulded and applied with stalks en barbotine 
(Dechelette, II. p. 171, fig. A., plate I., fig. I). 
5. Mortarivm (form 45) devevsovium. 
The inside base studded with grains of quartz to resist friction. On the 
outside, a lion-face spout moulded separately and applied. (Dechelette, II. 
p. 231, plate IX. 1-3 ; Koenen, XVI. 24; Colchester Museum, General Collection, 
471, 197-01, 702-04, and dccclxxx, E.A.S.) Stamped with name of potter 
GEMINIM. 
