88 THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN ANAU. 
the tops of the pots (+31.5 feet), and the bottom of the narrow walls had the 
same elevation, they must all have belonged to the same establishment. The 
wide wall (A) which was found first is, therefore, to be referred to a younger period. 
Further to the north and at +30 feet—that is, 1.5 feet deeper than the hearths 
and the tops of the pithoi—there occurred several stones. Among these were 
an elongated stone with a round depression, evidently a door-stone—that is, a 
stone with a hole polished and scratched by the rotary motion of the pivot on 
which the door swung—and an elongated stone standing on its broken end, with a 
deep longitudinal groove, presumably a whetstone. The positions of the stones 
and the pithoi are shown in figs. 26 and 27 and in the vertical section in fig. 24. 
The greatest interest attached naturally to the examination of the earthen- 
ware vessels standing in the floor. Pot a, standing nearest the wall of the terrace, 
had a cavity of 6.6 inches depth, filled with loose earth, mixed with ashes and 
charcoal. Pot b, standing nearer 
the center of the excavation, con- 
tained unburnt earth in the upper 
part; under this a whitish, fine 
mass; still deeper, reddish-yellow 
burnt earth mixed with charcoal; 
and below this a quantity of the 
same white substance that was 
observed near the top. Further 
examination, after exposing the 
outside of the pots, showed that 
they had no bottoms, but had 
been placed in the earth as if 
without the lower half, their shape 
representing practically a hemi- 
sphere; and that their surface, 
originally red, was much black- 
ened by fire. The interior was 
largely plastered over with clay, 
which was also burnt red; even the base on which the half-pots rested showed, 
to a considerable depth, red color due to burning. The long-continued and 
repeated use of these hearths is shown by the remains of an older pot under pot b. 
When this pot became useless, it was evidently replaced by pot b. 
What is the significance of these pots surrounded with traces of fire? The 
hard-burnt earth surrounding the outside of the pots and filling the interior, 
and the charcoal and ash-like white mass found in the interior, allow only one 
interpretation. The pots must have been bake-ovens heated from the interior. 
Sunilar pot-like forms are still used as ovens in Turkestan, where I myself have 
seen them, and Mr. Huntington assures me that they are used also in Persia. 
South of wall A, in terrace 1a, workmen had exposed on March 26 several 
skeletons at a depth of about 4.25 feet under the original surface of the hill, but 

Fig. 25.—Incrusted Cabinet in Terrace I. 

