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(F) High cylindrical feet, projecting far, in part with rich profiles; they belong 
to the fine bowls, C (figs. 170-173). Broken specimens on plate 11, figs. 4-6. 
(G) High, hollow feet, into which the walls of high vessels merge; very charac- 
teristic of the light-colored clay pottery of the middle strata (fig. 174). 
Broken specimen on plate 11, fig. 7. 
(H) Vessels with spouts. This spout is either in the form of a depression on 
the lip of the vessel or a beak-form on a special tube; or is simply in the 
form of a nozzle, as in vessels intended for pouring (figs. 175-177). A 
whole vessel of this form, reproduced on plate 12, fig. 1, lay in terrace B at 
the level of +23 feet 5 inches. 
(I) Service vessels or pithoi standing firmly embedded in the earth, with profiles 
like the large kettles (figs. 178-181). Of these there are fragments of pithos 
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159 167 (X 0.4) 166 (X 0.4) 
a, fig. 179; of pithos 6, fig. 180; and of pithos c, fig. 181, all from the upper 
digging. The lip-piece of a tray-like vessel is given in fig. 182 (see plate 19). 
(K) Stands for larger vessels, open both above and below (figs. 183 and 184). The 
last-mentioned specimen has a cruciform pattern incised in the outer sur- 
face. The smaller stand comes from the upper digging between +25 and 
+33 feet; the larger one from terrace B, between +31 and +23 feet. No 
other examples of this form were found. 
(1) Isolated forms. Among the burial gifts of skeleton No. 23 in terrace B, 
there was found, besides the above-mentioned cup (plate 1o, fig. 2) an egg- 
shaped vessel like a bottle, with a narrow neck (plate 12, fig. 2), height 
13.2cm. A pear-shaped bottle, of which the neck was broken off, height 
15.1 cm. (plate 12, ‘fig. 3), was presumably also a burial gift, as it lay 
