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EXCAVATIONS AND FINDS AT THE SOUTH KURGAN.   I13

tion of clay, with traces of fire in its interior. Besides this there were exposed at different levels five skeleton graves, some of them with vessels as burial gifts, (No. 22) at +25 feet, s (No. 2o) at +23 feet 7 inches, C (No. 23) at +23 feet 5 inches, i (No. 26) at +23 feet 2 inches, and d (No. 24) at +25 feet (see fig. 42) . The skeleton previously discovered at + 25 feet was designated e (No. 25) in the series. Besides these, there lay in the middle of the terrace, at + 25 feet 2 inches, the fragments of an air-dried brick, 17.5 inches long, 8.5 inches wide, and 4.5 inches thick. Lastly, there are to be mentioned four more or less well-preserved pithoi—pithos a (46.5 inches in circumference, 12.5 inches high), between skeletons

a and y at +25 feet,

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23.5 inches) at +23 feet, floor-level, be-----1.32   tween the isolated

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quadrangle ; pithos c (circumference 56.5 inches, height 20

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side of the clay quadrangle, at +23 feet 7 inches, floor-level;

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and pithos d (circum-

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inches, height io inches), situated some distance from pithos c, toward the outer side

'   of the terrace at + 2 I feet, floor-level. Further,

"   s there was found at + 23 feet 5 inches, near

skeleton v, a peculiar vessel with a beak-shaped spout (plate 12, fig. 1). Upon further digging there was found in the wall of the terrace,

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(No. 27). Its level was +23 feet, but it could Fig. 46.—Clay Chest in Terrace B. Details of not be wholly exposed until the stones forming

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Of the pithoi already mentioned, a is of coarse, gray-brown, badly burnt clay and contains fine earth mixed with ashes; the others (b to d) , on the other hand, are of excellent technique and of whitish-green clay. They were made on the wheel and belong to group 5. They are, however, in a worse state of preservation than a, the upper part, with the lip, being entirely gone; while of pithos d only the lowest part with the bottom is well-preserved. This specimen contained

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