EXCAVATIONS AT (iOURNIA. CHF.TK. 571 



Of tombs WO luivo as yot found no ti-acc at (Joiii'iiia. a]tli()ii<ili vi<r- 

 orous soarcli has Ix-eii niado for tlicm, but wo liavo si<riis of iiilraiuiii-al 

 burial on (ho north si)ur of tho acropolis, wlioi-o witliin an indosiirc 

 rosonibling a houso wo unoovorod tho bottoms of throo oasolhis (avor- 

 a<!:o h'n;Lith 1 motor). to<j:othor with many human bonos, throo bronzo 

 knives, and a thin tij) i)ioce of beaten gold, without pattoiMi, as lai'<;o 

 as tho end of a thumb. P'ragments of two otiioi- casollas woi-o un- 

 oarthod about 7 motors north of this point. r)Ut on this north spur 

 of tho acropolis the soil is novor more than 30 centimeters deep, and 

 this readily explains why of tho casollas only the bottoms and T) or G 

 centimotors of tho sides were preserved, why the bones wore scat- 

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

 north room of houso C) on tho west road, 1 motor below the surface, 

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

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

 figure in coarse terra cotta similar to hgures found in Cypriot tombs. 

 I believe that these objects were deposited in this house at a })oriod 

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

 tlie casollas on the north sj)ur are also late, although too little remains 

 to estal)lish a proof. 



February, 1901. 



