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fig. 4, left, and pi. 8, fig-. 2, a, /). Of the five vessels of this form, 

 only one (pi. 8, fig. 2, /) is smooth and polished, the others being 

 coarse and irregular in form and decoration. This well-finished piece 

 is unfortunately too badly broken for accurate reconstruction as to 

 its rim portion. The body is globular with a flattened, markedly con- 

 vex bottom. The small loop handle (only one is present) is ridged on 

 the edges with a line of raised notches in the center, and occurs on 

 the portion of the pot where the sharp slope toward the apparently 

 constricted mouth begins. The vessel walls are rather thin (5 mm 

 thick). This fragment is probably part of a once utilitarian vessel. 

 The other four vessels are round-bottomed and are so crude as to 

 suggest their hasty manufacture solely as offertory pieces. One is 

 complete (pi. 7, fig. 4, e) with two incised vertical loop handles. The 

 same type of crude incision extends in a band around the upper body. 

 Like the other complete vessels of this type, the vessel has a slightly 

 flaring rim. It is crudely and irregularly modeled but is not as thick 

 as the gross handles and rim suggest, being only 6 mm in lower body 

 thickness. A small vessel (pi. 8, fig. 2, a) is rather similar but dififers 

 in its decoration, which consists of small, vertical lines incised on the 

 body, loop handle, and just inside the rim. The modeling of this 

 piece is also very irregular. Better modeled is a similar vessel (pi. 7, 

 %• 4> /) decorated with two rows of short vertical lines separated 

 by horizontal incisions. Only one vertical loop handle was formerly 

 present. The last bowl of this type is extremely crude (pi. 7, fig. i, &) 

 and appears to have been punched out of a lump of clay. It formerly 

 had two vertical loop handles and the upper body is ornamented by 

 uncertainly executed, short, vertical incisions. Its thickness is ex- 

 tremely variable (6 to ii mm). 



Two globular vessels with constricted necks are present (pi. 7, 

 fig. I, a, and pi. 25, a). The largest of these is better modeled and 

 polished than the majority of the small vessels previously described. 

 Its rim is formed by an attached ribbon of clay and its decoration, 

 consisting of incised and indented lines, is irregular (pi. 7, fig. i, a). 

 The smaller vessel (pi. 25, a) is likewise fairly well modeled and 

 polished, with two tiny lugs at the base of the short neck. Fine grit 

 tempering has been employed in forming the paste of both. A round- 

 bottomed pot with a slightly flaring lip and wide mouth (pi. 8, fig. 

 2, g) is somewhat cruder in manufacture than the former. This 

 vessel appears to have been made without handles or lugs and is 

 rather thin (5 mm thick). The tempering is white grit somewhat 

 coarser than in the last two vessels. Its form is unique in the present 



