国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

POTTERY PROM CULTURE II, NORTH KURGAN.   135

represented in plate 9, fig. 4, is to be referred. Its form would connect it with the cups with columnar feet, but the clay is light-brown and red without a slip. It was found among the " mixed " pottery in terrace v.

In contrast to the conditions in culture I, the painted pottery is very much less represented than the monochrome. Before we enter upon a more detailed treatment of the painted ware, however, we have to attempt an explanation of its presence, for it occurs, together with the monochrome pottery, in the mixed layers in which remains of the older pottery have also found a resting-place. On what grounds, therefore, can we associate the painted pottery with the monochrome in the upper strata? We are justified in so doing by the rule that those fragments belong to the younger culture which do not occur in the middle and lower strata of the hill, that is, in the pure deposits of the older culture I. This rule must apply to the monochrome as well as to the painted ware. As a matter of fact, painted fragments were found in the upper strata which are so very different in technique and ornamentation from those

119

of groupsa and b of the older pottery

that their origin must be different also; ~$

and since they do not occur in the middle

and lower strata, they must be younger.

THE YOUNGER PAINTED POTTERY.

The younger painted pottery was

found principally in terrace v, between

36 feet and +37 feet (April 1 to 4,~~

1904). In the description of the exca-

vations

    it is designated as z and v.   \   121
Some few fragments also lay on the sur-

face of terrace I (March 25-26, 19o4).

   These are to be classified as vessels   \\

decorated (I) in one color; (2) in several

colors.

(I) Those painted in one color can be further divided into four groups:

(,z) Clay gray, brownish on the edges ; painting dull-black on a red burnished slip (plate 32, fig. 3).

(Ii) Clay rose-yellow, porous ; painting dull-black or blackish-brown on whitish-green slip, without burnishing (plate 31, fig. 3).

(r) Clay reddish-brown, porous; painting dull-black on light-brown clay ground without slip or polish (plate 32, fig. I, and plate 33, fig. 5). (ó) Clay whitish-green, fine-washed ; painting dull-black on a smooth clay ground without slip or polish. Transitional group to the pottery of the South Kurgan (plate 31, fig. 4, and plate 32, fig. 2). Technically these groups are undoubtedly connected with the older painted pottery of culture I; group 9 especially recalls, in clay and slip, the older variety made of light-colored clay. Group (.'connects itself with the red monochrome vessels of the upper strata, while in group a, the quality of the clay and the technique show points of resemblance to the pottery of the younger South Kurgan.

117

118

4

120