138 THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN ANAU. 
which with the number III we will distinguish from that of the North Kurgan. 
The pottery (groups 3 to 5 mentioned above) falls into three groups of the finer 
technique, to which is added a fourth group, consisting of coarse service vessels. 
(a) LIGHT-COLORED CLAY. 
Technique.—In most cases the clay has a gray-greenish or whitish-green 
color, always in a light tone; greenish-yellow or light-yellow clay also occurs. 
Now and then a fragment is yellow in the fracture and of a greenish shade on the 
surface; otherwise the surface corresponds to the fracture. I will remark here 
that the clay is seldom reddened through firing, in contrast with the pottery of 
the upper layers, where the vessels made of red clay have an entirely different 
character. The firing is never so firm and hard, even to brittleness, as that of the 
pottery of the upper strata. Otherwise, however, the technique stands at the 
height of development—the 
very fine-washed clay is 
always turned on the wheel, 
hand-work in this material 
being an exception. Thin- 
walled cups of very fine 
quality show to what perfec-~ 
tion the wheel technique was 
brought. 
Forms.—The forms cor- 
respond in superior quality 
to the technique and are very 
rich. We have only a few 
whole vessels, but the great 
mass of the pottery fragments 
yields the following series: 
(A) Large, kettle-shaped 
vessels with narrow 
mouths and simple 
profiles (figs. 141-147). 
An entire vessel, height 
34 cm., is shown in plate 10, fig. 1. Its lower part is sharply set off from 
the belly and drawn in with an arched form peculiar to the larger vessels 
of this pottery. 
(B) Larger and smaller deep cups with wide mouth (figs. 148-152). A vessel, 
height 7.2 cm. in contour, is shown in fig. 153, and plate 10, fig. 2. 
(C) Fine and, in part, very thin-walled bowls, with more or less sharp profiles 
(figs. 154-160). A broken piece, height 9.5 cm., is shown in plate 10, 
fig. 3. These forms all show high feet (see below). 
(D) Thick-walled dishes with various lip forms (figs. 161-165). 
(EH) Beakers, in part very fine; thin-walled, and in different forms, some deli- 
cately curved, others with walls bent back (figs. 166-168), or with fine 
horizontal grooves as in fig. 169. Broken specimens, height 11.2 to 13.6 
cm., on plate 11, figs. 1-3. 

