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the typically Ga-sur burials, other objects were found with one of 

 the two bodies : A copper dagger, a cylinder seal fitted with a copper 

 needle, and a copper leaf bent over at one end. 



Thirteen graves of adults discovered in the L4 pit belong un- 

 questionably to the Ga-sur period. Each one contained 1 to 5 jars 

 or bowls and occasionally other objects. In one instance shells 

 for cosmetics and beads were found; in another, in which the body 

 had originally been wrapped in straw matting, two gold beads, a 

 crescent-shaped gold earring, a copper pin with a glass knob, and 

 a cylinder seal; in a third one, a copper chisel. Two other graves 

 of the period were found in N120 : One of the bodies was originally 

 buried in a wooden coffin and had been provided with five vessels, 

 an earring consisting of a silver loop supporting a crescent-shaped 

 lapis-lazuli bead, and strings of beads used as bracelets and anklets ; 

 the other grave contained a large pot, two copper daggers, and 

 earrings consisting of copper rings. 



Extensive soundings within half a mile from Yorghan Tepe were 

 made, but no cemetery of the city of Nuzi was discovered. Our in- 

 formation on the burial of adults in the Nuzi period is therefore dis- 

 tressingly meager. Only two burials in L4, utterly devoid of objects, 

 belong to Nuzian times. 



Nuzian infant burials, conversely, are abundantly exemplified. 

 The remains of children not over 2 months of age were usually forced 

 into U-shaped bowls made for funerary purposes only. These ves- 

 sels were generally found in an inverted position or covered with 

 smaller bowls. Although occasionally they were placed within walls, 

 and in one instance inside a walled-up doorway, in most cases they 

 were laid in rooms along the walls or, as at Ur in the Larsa period, 

 just below the floor. In room S397 no less than 20 funerary bowls, 

 each one of which held the bones of an infant, were found on the 

 floor singly or in stacks of 2 or 3 — all of them, except 2 that may have 

 fallen from the stacks, in an inverted position. With these funerary 

 bowls was also an urn, with a hole at the bottom and covered with 

 an inverted bowl, containing the bones of several infants. Elsewhere 

 a similar urn with a cover, containing the bones of at least 11 chil- 

 dren, was found in the foundation of a wall; a third urn, with a 

 large round opening at the bottom and a bowl covering the top, 

 contained the bones of 5 children; it stood on the floor of a room. 

 Three covered oval basins of unbaked clay, each containing a skele- 

 ton, were found in the foundations of walls or, in one instance, below 

 a pavement. One of them had a few beads inside it and a vessel 

 beside it — in fact, the only known example of Nuzian funerary 

 donations. 



