POTTERY FROM CULTURE I, NORTH KURGAN. 129 
as in fig.94. A graceful effect is produced by parallel lines occupied with rows of 
spots, which may either stand alone, as in figs. 95 and 96, or lie between two 
parallel lines, as in fig. 97. Larger fragments of service vessels show heavy cross- 
bands which extend over the whole vessel (fig. 98) (cf. plate 26, fig. 2). 
(3) Besides these two large and systematically connected groups of patterns, 
we find in both classes of vessels ornamental details which give evidence of the 
ability of the painters in the matter of design. Some examples, such as figs. 
99-103, will show this. The groups of patterns referred to are distributed in such 
a way that in both classes of vessels, a and 6, the horizontal linear-pattern 
(Reihenmuster) rules equally. The oblique-band pattern (Bandmuster) on the 
other hand, was preferred for the large vessel of group b, though there are 
were given for referring 
examples of more delicate 
vessels in group a,in which 
Wes oa the deposits of the lower 
7 strata to the same culture 
as that of the middle strata. 
| We will now note some 
details. 
79 coe Los In the north digging 
specimens of groups a and 
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LOWERSTRATA, CULTURE I. 
In the detailed report 
of the excavation, reasons 


we find the band pattern. 
b occurred in all the strata lying below 
datum. Indeed, some painted fragments 
of the same variety as those of the middle 
layers were noted between — 20 feet 5 inches 
and — 24 feet 5 inches. Finds of the same 
significance were made in the west shaft. 
Here the culture-strata lying below datum 
are shown by the ceramic finds to be quali- 
tatively similar to the middle strata of the 
heart of the hill. In addition, there was observed between — 23 feet 5 inches 
and —24 feet the lipped piece of a coarse vessel of whitish-green clay (group 
b), of the same form as that mentioned above from the west digging (fig. 66). 
Near it was the lip-piece of delicate whitish-green clay and a red-toned saucer 
with painting (group a). On the other hand, the finds from the lower galleries of 
Komorof’s trench can not, as was remarked above, be considered without criti- 
cism on account of the isolated occurrence of the gray and red monochrome 
fragments. There is also to be remembered the painted pottery of the middle 
strata, with the tent-ornamentation, and the painted specimens of the groups a 

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