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ROMAN POTTERY FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
they have been found with a nozzle fof a wick, and also with a 
socket for a candle. 
6. Chalice-shaped Bowl or Tazza, of rude workmanship. 
Yellowish coarse clay coated with white slip. 
Plain curved stem joining a slightly moulded expanded foot. Round the 
rims of a conical bowl, cordons notched at intervals with a blunt edge. 
7. Chalice-shaped Bowl or Tazza, of rude workmanship. 
Yellowish coarse clay coated with white slip. 
Slightly moulded stem on a high cylindrical plain foot. Round the middle 
portion of a conical bowl, two thin bands of “ frilling ” with edges turned 
upwards. 
Unornamented Vessels. Though too numerous and variously 
shaped to be separately described, mention should be made of 
the little vessels known as ‘ unguent pots,’ which are the 
commonest and best preserved objects among Roman grave 
furniture. The York examples are most frequently miniature 
beakers (form 55), of pale paste, coated with chocolate-brown or 
pinkish-red slip. 
The) 7 appear to have in part superseded the well-known thin 
tubular glass unguentaria (or ‘ lachrymatories ’), which served a 
similar purpose of creating sweet odours when thrown upon the 
funeral pyre, or into the grave along with the ashes, during the 
earlier period, down to about the end of the I. Century. 
Riese records the occurrence of innumerable little vessels, the 
so-called * salbcn topfchen ,’ in almost every grave, usually of grey 
clay coated with blackish or grey slip, in the Roman grave-field 
at Praunheim, near Heddernheim, which he dates from about 
A.D. 90 to 150. Hedd. Mitteil., IV., p. 28, plate I-> figs* 35 > 3 6 > 
37, 50, &c. 
Kcenen, XII., 24 ; XVI., 5, 7. 
