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170   THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN ANAU.

as in S.K. 239 (fig. 405 and plate 45, fig. 12) from the same point, and also in S.K. 362 (fig. 406; plate 45, fig. io), from terrace B between + 18 feet and +3o feet. The bottoms are strikingly thick, as in S.K. 159 (fig. 407 and plate 45, fig. 5) from terrace B, between + 21 feet 5 inches and + 23 feet 7 inches. The greater part of the fragments found are of marble, but two of alabaster were collected. The finds all come from the lowest layer of terrace B and are important in connection with the buildings found there. While the marble and alabaster vessels are smooth, two fragments with incised patterns (S.K. 169) belonging to a small shallow cup of dark gray-green stone, are shown in fig. 408 and plate 45, fig. 6, from the upper digging between + 25 feet 5 inches and + 29 feet.

FROM UPPER STRATA OF SOUTH KURGAN, CULTURE IV.

Whorls.—The number of whorls found in the upper strata of the South Kurgan was strikingly small. They have no peculiarities of form. Some are conical, as S.K. 121 (fig. 409 and plate 46, fig. 1) ; some are double-conical, and truncated like S.K. 33 (fig. 410 and plate 46, fig. 2) ; some, as is more usual, are furnished with

a depression as in S.K. 3 (fig. 411 and

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plate 46, fig. 3). Ornamented whorls occur also in these layers, the patterns consisting throughout of contiguous short curved lines—the favorite motif of ornamentation of the middle and lower strata.

Flint implements.—Flint implements are also rare in the upper strata. A knife (S.K. 53; fig. 412 and plate 46, fig. 4) may serve as a specimen; also a two-edged saw (S.K. 13; fig. 413 and plate 46, fig. 5), and a one-

edged saw (S.K. Ioo; fig. 414 and plate 46, fig. 6). It is not determinable

whether these belong to the culture of the upper strata or, as older artefacts,

came accidentally into the deposit of that time.

Miscellaneous.—A lenticular mace (S.K. 38; fig. 415 and plate 46, fig. 8) from the débris of the upper digging from between +45 feet II inches and +47 feet, stands by itself. It is made of violet-gray stone, is polished, and has an unfinished perforation. In the hole on one side there still remains a part of the drill-core. Among the miscellaneous objects there is an awl-shaped bone implement with a longitudinal channel (S.K. 44; fig. 416; plate 46, fig. 7), also found in the upper digging, between +43 feet and +45 feet II inches.

One is disposed to regard the greater part of the separate finds from the upper layers with more or less skepticism. They add nothing to our knowledge of the

culture characterized by the finds of iron in these strata, and only future studies can determine whether they are to be referred to the older culture and have come accidentally into the younger layers.

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