MINOR ANTIQUITIES FROM CULTURES II AND III, BEADS. 159 
with blue spots and cylindrical; and a pendant of lapis lazuli, blue with white 
spots. Of identically the same material as the last-named bead was an irregular 
cylindrical bead (N.K. 26; fig. 309; plate 40, fig. 10), found with skeleton 2 of 
terrace 1. The other skeleton, No. 5, in terrace 1, +30 feet, also had burial 
gifts, which in material and form class themselves with those just mentioned (N.K. 
50; fig. 310; plate 4o, fig. 6); four beads of lapis lazuli, of which two are angular, 
the others irregularly double-conical, with truncated points; two of them are 
bluish-white with blue spots, the third light-blue with white spots, the fourth uni- 
formly light-blue. A large quantity of very small cylindrical beads of yellowish- 
white stone were found with the skeleton Ig in terrace v, + 29 feet (N.K. 222; fig. 
311; plate 4o, fig. 5). 
FROM MIDDLE AND LOWER STRATA OF SOUTH KURGAN, CULTURE III. 
Beads.—There is only a single bead to be noted from the skeleton graves 
of the South Kurgan—a small, cylindrical, yellowish-white stone bead (S.K 
244; fig. 312; plate 41, fig. 16). It was found April 
22, 1904, in terrace B, with skeleton 19, +27 feet. 
All the other beads were separate finds, which 
are described as follows: Two beads, one gray- 
297 (<2) 299 (<1) 

striped and barrel-shaped, the other gray-green with 298 (X 2) eat eos 
dark veins and annular (S.K. 104; fig. 313; plate | Cay 
41, fig. 11). They were found in terrace B, between Gi) 
+25 and +26.25 feet. One bead (S.K. 287; fig. BOO ee! 
between +19 and +20 feet. It is somewhat flat, 
the shape of a prune stone, elliptical in cross-section, 302 (X1) 308 (1) 
and shows a peculiar pattern on both sides—dark- ae aan 
grayona light-grayground. It isa polished pebble, 
containing a fossil. Another bead (S.K.157) of len- 
ticular cross-section and cylindrical in longitudinal 
section, with indrawn sides and made of milk-white 
alabaster with water-gray stripes, is shown in fig. 315, and plate 41,fig.12. It comes 
from terrace C, between +23 feet 2 inches and +26 feet 2 inches. At the same 
terrace, between +21 feet 2 inches and +23 feet 2 inches, there were found two 
beads (S.K. 218; fig. 316; plate 41, fig. 4). One is made of carnelian, nearly 
spherical; the other of dark-brown lapis lazuli, in pyramidal form and pierced 
at the top like a pendant. 
There were found numerous double-conical stone beads in the form of whorls, 
made from variegated materials and always well polished. They are either low 
and wide or high and narrow. A gray-green specimen (S.K. 193) is shown in 
fig. 317 and plate 42, fig. 4. It is from terrace B, between +21 feet 5 inches 
and +23 feet 7 inches. In terrace C, between +21 feet 2 inches and +23 feet 
314; plate 41, fig. 5) is very remarkable on account 
of its material andform. It comes from terrace B, G3 gonna 

