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2 inches, there was found a chocolate-colored bead and one light-yellow, both
shaped as shown in fig. 318 and plate 42, fig. 3 (S.K. 194). At the same place,
between +18 feet 5 inches and +19 feet 5 inches, there was found a light-gray
bead (S.K. 299) with light-brown stripes. A dark-gray specimen (S.K. 152;
fig. 319), of less regular workmanship and bored with a large hole, was found in
terrace B, between +21 feet 5 inches and +23 feet 7 inches. A similar one was
observed also in the upper digging, between +25 feet 5 inches and +29 feet
5 inches. These beads are also often ornamented with small single or concentric
circles with a central point, which must have been made with a compass. Two
specimens made of greenish stone (S.K. 124;
fig. 320 and plate 42, fig. 1) were found in
terrace B, between +23 feet 7 inches and
+25 feet, and another at the same place but
deeper, between +21 feet 5 inches and +23
feet 7 inches (S.K. 253).
The clay beads are, like those of the North
Kurgan, spherical or double-conical as in
S.K. 150 (fig. 321), from the upper digging,
between +25 feet 5 inches and +29 feet, and
S.K. 151 (fig. 322), from terrace B, between
+21 feet 5 inches and +23 feet 7 inches.
Especially worthy of remark is a double-
conical bead of blue-white faience (so-called
Egyptian porcelain), with blue-white glaze
(S.K. 154; fig. 323 and plate 42, fig. 8). It
was found in the upper digging in the layer
of the pithoi between +25 feet 5 inches and
+29 feet.
Miscellaneous.—A toggle-like object of
quartz with a central groove (S.K. 82; fig.
324 and plate 41, fig. 22) was found in the
upper digging, between +37 and +40 feet. One can not say whether it was for
ornament or use.
A clay disk of light-gray material, almost wholly blackened, was probably
an ornament. It has a notched edge and two eccentric transverse holes (S.K.
318; fig. 325 and plate 41, fig. 21) from terrace B, between +18 and +21 feet.

FROM UPPER STRATA OF SOUTH KURGAN, CULTURE IV.

Beads.—A small cylindrical turquoise bead (S.K. 28; fig. 326) was found in
terrace A, between +27 and +31 feet, among the fragments of the younger
pottery of the upper digging. To the younger culture of the kurgan also there
belongs a barrel-shaped bead of bluish-white glass, with fine black points (S.K.
65; fig. 327; plate 41, fig. 14), from the upper digging, between +40 and +43
feet. A stone bead in the form of an egg with truncated point, of light-gray