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obviously made for funerary purposes only, like similar cups found at Shāhī-
tump.³ Three painted jars, D. 244, 249, 250, are seen in the same Plate XV, and
a copper or bronze bowl with 'disk' base, D. 247, in Pl. XVIII.

Excavation of trench E, cut parallel to B, yielded one burial with varied and
plentiful furniture, as seen in Fig. 41. Here were found some thirty-two
earthenware vessels mostly unpainted, including small cups of a characteristic
shape, E. i. 253, 254 (Pl. XVI); two metal bowls (E. i. 251; Pl. XVIII); a curious
bronze object resembling an axe-head surmounted by a seated camel, E. i. 258
(Pl. XVIII); a complete alabaster jar, E. i. 252 (Pl. VI), and a fine agate bead, 1½
inches long, tipped with gold ferrules at both ends, E. 259 (Pl. X). One small
bowl was filled with bone fragments which might have been human.

In the adjoining cutting F the objects found in an undisturbed deposit (Fig.
40) were less numerous but also of varied interest (Pls. XVI, XXXII). They
included, besides tall jars, like F. i. 266, 271, 273 and other vessels, mostly un-
painted, a large alabaster cup, F. i. 262 (Pl. VI); a bronze dish, F. 298 (Pl. XVIII),
and a bronze spear-head, F. i. 261 (Pl. XVIII). The finding with these objects
of a small cylindrical vessel of a dark-grey potstone, F. i. 263 (Pl. VI), deserves
special notice as it conclusively proves that the use of such ware, incised with
geometric patterns, and peculiar to the Bampūr basin, as attested by finds at
Bampūr, Dāmīn, Katukān, and elsewhere, must be considered contemporary
with that of the chalcolithic pottery of these funerary deposits. A specimen of
small painted bowls from two minor deposits exposed in trench F is seen in
F. iii. 274 (Pl. XV).

The gradually increasing number of labourers allowed us, after the second
day of our stay at Khurāb, to make a trial excavation also at another small
potsherd-strewn patch of ground about 120 yards to the south-west of the one
first searched. Here three separate burials were traced. At one of them, L. i,
the sepulchral furniture, found only a foot below the surface (Fig. 42), com-
prised not less than thirty-six pieces of pottery. Most of them were unpainted,
but some among these showed unusual shapes. Thus may be noticed the high
goblet, L. i. 278, raised on a tall stem and the chalice-like cup, L. i. 279 (Pl. XV),
both of 'terra-cotta'. Among the large flat-bottomed vessels, L. i. 276, also of
'terra-cotta' (Pl. VI), has the shape of a flower-pot. Here, too, smaller vessels
like L. i. 280, 286, 287 (Pls. XV, XXXIII), all 'terra-cotta', were found packed into
large ones, some of the former being fragments broken in antiquity. The other
two deposits were smaller and contained mainly unpainted vessels, some showing
signs of having been exposed to fire. Among the painted ware comprised in them
(see L. ii. 293, 295; Pl. XV) I may mention two shallow bowls of thin grey fabric