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color and well polished (S.K. 32; fig. 328; plate 42, fig. 2), came from the upper 
digging, between +45 feet 11 inches and +47 feet. It has a peculiar perforation, 
which tapers toward the interior. 
Miscellaneous.—Ornamental disks with central perforation served the same 
purpose as the beads. S.K. 15, fig. 329 (plate 41, fig. 23), shows half of one of 
lenticular shape, consisting of milk-white, finely polished material (shell?). It is 
from the upper digging, between +47 and +50 feet. The fragments of another 
lenticular disk of polished marble (S.K. 45; fig. 330; plate 41, fig. 24) were found 
in the upper digging, somewhat deeper, between +43 and +45 feet. 
UNCERTAIN WHETHER FROM OLDER OR YOUNGER CULTURE, SOUTH KURGAN. 
In addition to the ornamental objects just enumerated there is a series of 
beads and similar ornaments, but the conditions of their occurrence do not permit 
us to say to which of the two culture epochs of 442 (2) ele 
the South Kurgan they belong. va 
First of all, delicate turquoise beads, in the 
same class with the one mentioned above, are 
shown in fig. 326. One of these, barrel-shaped 
in longitudinal section, lenticular in cross-section 
(S.K. 69; fig. 331; plate 41, fig. 20), is from ter- 

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318 (41) 322 (1) pottery. Another, cylin- 
drical in longitudinal sec- 
tion, elliptical in cross- 
section (S.K. 89; fig. 332; 
plate 41, fig. 18) is also 
from terrace A, between 
+23 feet 4 inches and +25 feet. Now, a turquoise bead 
of the same form as that last mentioned was found April 
22, in terrace C, between +19 feet 5 inches and +21 feet 
2 inches (S. K. 245); but the terrace was dug 
outward on that day and it is not impossible 
that the bead may have fallen in fromthe mixed 
layers containing younger pottery on the outer 
ENE aa ip edge. One would assign a turquoise bead of 
this form to the younger rather than to the 
319 (X1) 321 (<1) older culture of the South Kurgan. 
The ‘“‘mixed”’ layers of terrace A, between +23 feet 4 inches and +25 feet, 
furnished also a three-sided slide made of greenish-white glass of faience-like 
material, with two perforations and two notches on the edge (S.K. 86; fit .1333; 
plate 41, fig. 7). A very striking bead is shown in S.K. 246 (fig. 334; plate 41, 
fig.9). It is large and barrel-shaped, made of milk-white agate, striped with 


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