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tion of clay, with traces of fire in its interior. Besides this there were exposed 
at different levels five skeleton graves, some of them with vessels as burial gifts, 
(No. 22) at +25 feet, 0 (No. 20) at +23 feet 7 inches, ¢ (No. 23) at +23 feet 5 
inches, 7 (No. 26) at +23 feet 2 inches, and # (No. 24) at +25 feet (see fig. 42). 
The skeleton previously discovered at +25 feet was designated <« (No. 25) in the 
series. Besides these, there lay in the middle of the terrace, at +25 feet 2 inches, 
the fragments of an air-dried brick, 17.5 inches long, 8.5 inches wide, and 4.5 
inches thick. Lastly, there are to be mentioned four more or less well-preserved 
pithoi—pithos a (46.5 inches in circumference, 12.5 inches high), between skeletons 
aand 7 at +25 feet, 
oo c----; the level of floor; 
Soa pithos b (circumfer- 
ence 61 inches, height 
23.5 inches) at +23 
feet, floor-level, be- 
tween the isolated 
brick and the clay 
quadrangle; pithos c 
(circumference 56.5 
inches, height 20 
es inches) on the other 
| : side of the clay quad- 
PETITE rangle, at +23 feet 7 
inches, floor-level; 
and pithos d (circum- 
Dine Sp (et i ee KG (o> a iererce 20l . tie= pre- 
served lowest part 57 
inches, height ro inches), situated some dis- 
tance from pithos c, toward the outer side 
of the terrace at +21 feet, floor-level. Further, 
there was found at +23 feet 5 inches, near 
skeleton 7, a peculiar vessel with a beak-shaped 
spout (plate 12, fig. 1). Upon further digging 
there was found in the wall of the terrace, 
, below the threshold, the skull of a skeleton, ¢ 
ea ee ee Pere ea f (No. 27). Its level was +23 feet, but it could 
Fig. 46.—Clay Chest in Terrace B. Details of not be wholly exposed until the stones forming 
Construction. Measurements in Feet. the threshold were removed. 
Of the pithoi already mentioned, a is of coarse, gray-brown, badly burnt 
clay and contains fine earth mixed with ashes; the others (6 to d), on the other 
hand, are of excellent technique and of whitish-green clay. They were made on 
the wheel and belong to group 5. They are, however, in a worse state of preser- 
vation than a, the upper part, with the lip, being entirely gone; while of pithos d 
only the lowest part with the bottom is well-preserved. This specimen contained 










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