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average, made of gray paste with occasional darker firing clouds. 

 Inclusions consist of small white angular siliceous particles rather 

 sparingly used. Surfaces are somewhat uneven, but definitely pol- 

 ished. The rim is narrow and interiorly channeled and terminates 

 in an undecorated inward-beveled lip ; it bears horizontal rocker im- 

 pressions below which is a row of hemiconical punctates. Below 

 the plain polished neck, and separated from it by an irregular incised 

 line, the body is ornamented with curvilinear scroll designs worked 

 out in rocker-roughened bands on a plain background. The designs 

 are not very well arranged, and the work as a whole suggests an 

 inept artist. Four units are present, but one is much smaller than 

 the others and appears to have been crowded in. No two units are 

 alike (fig. 5) . The smallest, which runs only about halfway down the 

 vessel, is supplemented below by a horizontal crescentic unit, also 

 rocker roughened. Carelessly incised lines delimit the roughened 

 areas. The body is globular, and in profile presents an even curve 

 from side to side below the neck. 



Relatively few sherds in our series are comparable in hardness, 

 finish, and decoration to the above vessel, but some of the smaller 

 cross-hatched rimsherds are from vessels that must have resembled it 

 more closely than they did the larger culinary jars. Whether they 

 represent a specialized type, as for example mortuary ware, or were 

 only the product of more care and greater skill on the part of some 

 potters I cannot say. At the moment I see no reason for regarding 

 them as importations, or as necessarily beyond the technical ability 

 of members of the local group. 



The specimen in plate 8, d^ somewhat inaccurately restored from a 

 sherd, is a softer piece. Its dimensions, approximate only, are : Max- 

 imum diameter, 13.5 cm. ; diameter at rim, ca. 12 cm. ; height, ca. 13.6 

 cm. Paste and surface are a light buff; tempering is fine sand. The 

 body is globular, the neck constricted, and the rim flaring. Cross- 

 hatched lines cover the rim, whose lower margin is marked by punc- 

 tates. The body is entirely covered with rocker-marks, which fade 

 away to a highly polished base. There is no bordering line between 

 the decorated body and the plain neck. Technically inferior to the 

 polished ware just noted, this piece differs still more widely from the 

 other types so far discussed. 



To the vessel shapes already described may be added two others — 

 square or lobed jars, and bowls. The first is shown by the sherd 

 in plate 8, &. Dark gray in color, thin-walled, and moderately hard, 

 but lacking polished surfaces, this jar originally was squarish in out- 

 line with rounding corners. Each of these corners or lobes was cov- 

 ered with finely executed rocker roughening bordered by a broad 

 shallow groove. The flat sides between the roughened lobes are plain 

 and smoothed. The rim is narrow and cross-hatched; the neck, 3.5 



