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『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

pelly, corresponded to the layers between +43 and +48 feet of the upper digging,
and was therefore wholly in the region of the younger culture IV. In full accord
with this is the fact that the pottery fragments found from April 11 to 14 in terrace
A belonged for the greater part to the younger pottery of red clay, while only
isolated specimens of that made of gray clay were observed. It was not till April
15 that the gray ware appeared more often.

The three other finds of iron from terrace A came from still higher layers.
Of these, the fragment of a sickle (S.K. 22; fig. 290; plate 39, fig. 5), was found
on April 9; that is, deeper than the above three-edged copper arrow-point. A
four-edged bar (S.K. 25; fig. 291; plate 39, fig. 6) was found on April 11 between
+27 and +31 feet, and at the same time some indeterminable fragments (S.K. 35).

Two other finds were made—a piece of a knife (S.K. 2, fig. 292) in the upper
digging 1 foot 10 inches below the surface, and some fragments (S.K. 109) in the
outer digging, about 2 feet deep, in the neighborhood of the pithos found there
in situ. This closes the list of iron objects found in the Anau kurgans.

(c) LEAD.

Objects of lead were found only in the middle layers of the North Kurgan.
They belong, therefore, to the oldest culture epoch, I. Indeed, lead was made
into objects of ornament, and stands, therefore, on
a par with copper. This is shown also in the forms.
Such ornaments of lead are found among the burial
gifts in the burials of terrace II at +22 feet 5 inches.
Like the copper ornaments, they occur in the form
of cylindrical spirals and cylindrical tubes (N.K.
143; fig. 293; plate 40, fig. 3; and N.K. 185; fig.
294; plate 36, fig. 1).

Of the lead spirals, which belong to the burial gifts
with skeleton 13, the largest has six windings, appar-
ently fully preserved. Of the other one pictured,
only 4.5 windings are preserved; a third one, not
pictured here, is broken and much bent. The lead
tubes from the burial gifts of skeleton 14 differ from
the analogous copper tube found with them in that
they are wholly closed on the sides (cf. the above-
mentioned spiral tube with fig. 237).

(d) ORNAMENTS OF STONE, CLAY, AND FAIENCE.

FROM LOWER AND MIDDLE STRATA OF NORTH KURGAN, CULTURE I.

Beads.—In the list of burial gifts of the lower and middle strata of the North
Kurgan there were, besides copper and lead ornaments, numerous beads. Very
peculiar and primitive are six turquoise beads which were found, with two small
drilled snail shells, with skeleton 17 at −8 feet in the shaft of the east gallery (cf.
N.K. 113; fig. 295; plate 40, fig. 7). They occur in two forms, are nearly bean-
shaped, and, like slides, are pierced transversely (fig. 295). Stone beads of