^{page 185 note 1} The Monte Testaccio, more than 150 ft. in height, is almost entirely composed of fragments of amphorae. It appears to have been the place on the banks of the Tiber where ships discharged their cargoes.

^{page 185 note 2} Notably Curle, J., NewsteadGoogle Scholar; Wheeler, R. E. M. and Wheeler, T. V., ‘The Roman Amphitheatre at Caerleon’ (Archaeologia, lxxvii)Google Scholar; Oelmann, F., Die Keramik des Kastells NiederbieberGoogle Scholar; Ritterling, E., ‘Das frührömische Lager bei Hofheim’ (Nassauer Annalen, xxxiv)Google Scholar; Löschcke, S., ‘Haltern’ (Mitteilungen der Altertums-Kommission für Westfalen, vGoogle Scholar).

^{page 185 note 3} C.I.L. xv, 492.

^{page 186 note 1} Further light can be thrown, perhaps, on the provenance of amphorae, and thus on the location of firms, by the scientific examination of the fabric of amphorae by chemists or crystallographers.

^{page 186 note 2} In Frank, Tenney, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome, iii, 109–10Google Scholar.

^{page 186 note 3} The article ‘Über die Abdichtung der Amphoren’ (Report for 1925–6 of the Gesellschaft Pro Vindonissa, pp. 9–10) is essential for the study of this problem.

^{page 186 note 4} Archaeologia, lxxviii, 186–7.

^{page 186 note 5} C.I.L. xv, tab. II.