126 THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN ANAU. 
(b) LARGE AND SMALL VESSELS IN COARSE TECHNIQUE. 
Forms.—In this group, also, the number of forms is very limited. For the 
most part they are deep cups, or kettle-shaped pithoi, with flat bottoms (fig. 59). 
These last often have below the lip two or three short projecting horizontal ridges, 
lying parallel, one below the other, which presumably take the place of handles 
(fig. 60). More rare are the cups with indrawn margin and flaring mouth, 2. e., 
with narrow throat. They occur only in hard-burnt red clay (fig. 61). Cups 
with the ‘margin thickened, as in fig. 62, are very rare. Very small cups, which 
are perhaps copies of larger vessels, are represented in figs. 63 and 64. 
In general, the 
coarser vessels have 
onlya flat bottom, like 
the examples just men- 
tioned. It is only 
rarely that one finds a 
high hollow foot as in 
fig. 65, a form which 
was disclosed (March 
28-31) in the west 
digging, between +18 feet and +8.5 feet and 
in the east gallery (March 25-26) between 
+18 feet and +8 feet. In the series of the 
60 



KK larger vessels belong also the pithoi found im 
Q\\ situ (see figure of pithoi above, fig. 34, and 
NN plate 20, fig. 1; plate 21, fig. 1). They extend 
AK still farther the series of forms with their high, 
\\ often almost cylindrical tapering feet which 
\\\ adapt them to insertion in the ground or to 
resting in high supports. A remarkable form 
\ \\ is that of a spherical vessel with narrow open- 
\ \\ ing (fig. 66), taken from the middle layers. 
MW \ These examples exhaust the series of forms. 
Technique.—The clay of the coarser vessels is, for the most part, very porous. 
It is often light-green, white or yellow with a greenish tone; grayish-white, light- 
brown, or brown-red, and light-red also occur. In contrast with the small vessels 
of group a, their firing was very moderate, but they, too, show a thin color-slip, 
which, as a rule, corresponds to the color of the clay—light-green, whitish-green, 
yellowish, brownish, and reddish or light-red. In some cases we find the same 
violet-red that was seen on vessels in group a. On the surface of the coarser vessels 
there are often visible little elongated depressions, traces of pieces of straw which 
were originally baked in the clay, and, as a rule, the polishing is wanting. Still, 
there is a kind of red clay with a covering of red color which resembles the vessels 
of group a. In this group the vessel was polished before being painted (see 
plate 20, fig. 1; plate 21, fig. 1; plate 24, fig. 3; plate 25, figs. 2-4; plate 26, figs. 1 
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