POTTERY. 



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Fig. 9. A potsherd with an elevated ring, forming the base of the vessel. 

 Slightly reduced. 



tliem. In one of the mounds there was found, standing- 

 in an upright position, a broken fine vessel of large 

 size, not far from fourteen inches in diameter and about 

 a foot high (Fig. 10). The sides of this vessel were 

 quite thin, only little exceeding an eighth of an inch in 

 thickness. The upper outer surface was decorated by 

 straight parallel lines forming V-shaped patterns. Be- 

 low the widest part of the vessel the outside was 

 smooth. A number of ears adorned the outside of its 

 upper rim. Parts of the upper rim as well as of the 

 bottom were wanting. 



