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Fig. 57 is in the simplest style, although the outlines are clearer and more 

 regular than usual. It occurs four times in a band just below the rim on the 

 outside, on a field of dirty buff. The panel in Fig. 58 is repeated ten times with 

 slight variations in No. 22,354. The form is slightly changed from the original 

 by the separation of the two smaller squares from each other, and from the larger 

 subdivision a, and by the right end of a being pointed and extended to partially fill 

 in the new vacancy. This point is represented in Fig. 59 by three horizontal 



Pig. 59. 



Fig. CO. 



p 



No. 22,371. 



No. 22,314. 



lines, similar lines being found on the other end of the parallelogram. The color 

 of this specimen, No. 22,371, is reddish yellow, and on it are six panels in which 

 the number of dots differ. In Fig. 60 the surface in a is embellished by a pcr- 

 .pendicular line in the centre with fine dots on each side. At first these dots were 

 supposed to refer to dates or ages. But they vary in number in different panels 

 of the same vessel in a manner to suggest that they were placed there without 

 definite design, except to fill in and enrich the ornamentation. Thus, in No. 

 22,314 there are five panels, Fig. 60, of nearly the same dimensions, with the 

 number of dots varying in the different lines, as follows : 



1st panel, 

 2il panel, 

 3d panel, 

 4th panel, 

 5th panel, 



\si line. Id line, "d line. \ih line, ath line. Total. 



13 _)_ o + 5 + 5 + 7 36 



11 + 7 _). 6 + 6 + 6 = 36 



11 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 6 = 38 

 9 + 74-6 + 6 + 6 = 34 



12 + 8 + 5 -f 4 + 6 = 35 



The dots on most pieces were much more irregular in number than in this 

 specimen. The field color is a yellowish cream, with dark brown lines bordered 

 on one side of the upright lines with dirty yellow. In a great many pieces of this 

 terra-cotta the bordering lines of red or yellow are laid on in the most careless 

 manner, smearing over the black lines or leaving them entirely in some places. 

 Another bowl is almost precisely similar in ornamentation to that last described. 



Fig. 61. 



No. 22,313. 



