EXCAVATIONS AT COU]RNIA, CRETE. 571 



Of tombs we have as yet found no trace at (loiirnia. altlioua-h y'\<^- 

 orons search has been made for them, but we have sig-ns of intramural 

 burial on the north spur of the acropolis, where within an inclosure 

 resembling a house we uncovered the bottoms of three casellas (aver- 

 age length 1 meter), together with many human bones, three l)r()nze 

 knives, and a thin tip piece of beaten gold, without ])attern, as large 

 as the end of a thuml). Fragments of two other casellas were un- 

 earthed about 7 meters north of this point. But on (his north spur 

 of the acropolis the soil is never more than oO centimeters deep, and 

 tliis readily explains why of the casellas only the bottoms and o or G 

 centimeters of the sides were preserved, why the bones were scat- 

 tered, and Avhy no more objects were found with them. Within the 

 north room of house O on the west road, 1 meter below tlie surface, 

 we came upon a better preserved casella decorated with a link pat- 

 tern of debased type, and close to it a grotesque mourning female 

 figure in coarse terra cotta similar t(^ figures found in Cypriot tombs. 

 I believe that these objects were deposited in this house at a period 

 distinctly later than that of the settlement itself, and it may be that 

 the casellas on the north spur are also late, although too little remains 

 to establish a proof. 



February, 11)04. 



