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| Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.1 |
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Citation Information
138 THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN ANAU.
which with the number III we will distinguish from that of the North Kurgan. The pottery (groups 3 to 5 mentioned above) falls into three groups of the finer technique, to which is added a fourth group, consisting of coarse service vessels.
(a) LIGHT-COLORED CLAY.
Technique.—In most cases the clay has a gray-greenish or whitish-green color, always in a light tone; greenish-yellow or light-yellow clay also occurs. Now and then a fragment is yellow in the fracture and of a greenish shade on the surface; otherwise the surface corresponds to the fracture. I will remark here that the clay is seldom reddened through firing, in contrast with the pottery of the upper layers, where the vessels made of red clay have an entirely different character. The firing is never so firm and hard, even to brittleness, as that of the pottery of the upper strata. Otherwise, however, the technique stands at the
height of development—the
141 Q ~~~~ ~~ very fine-washed clay is
always turned on the wheel,
142 \~ ~~~ hand-work in this material
being an exception. Thin-
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profiles (figs. 141-147).
An entire vessel, height
34 cm., is shown in plate Io, fig. 1. Its lower part is sharply set off from the belly and drawn in with an arched form peculiar to the larger vessels of this pottery.
Larger and smaller deep cups with wide mouth (figs. 148-152). A vessel, height 7.2 cm. in contour, is shown in fig. 153, and plate Io, fig. 2.
Fine and, in part, very thin-walled bowls, with more or less sharp profiles (figs. 154-160). A broken piece, height 9.5 cm., is shown in plate Io, fig. 3. These forms all show high feet (see below).
Thick-walled dishes with various lip forms (figs. 161-165).
Beakers, in part very fine; thin-walled, and in different forms, some delicately curved, others with walls bent back (figs. 166-168), or with fine horizontal grooves as in fig. 169. Broken specimens, height I I.2 to 13.6 cm., on plate I1, figs. 1-3.
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