170 THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN ANAU. 
as in §.K. 239 (fig. 405 and plate 45, fig. 12) from the same point, and also in S.K. 
362 (fig. 406; plate 45, fig. 10), from terrace B between +18 feet and +30 feet. 
The bottoms are strikingly thick, as in $.K. 159 (fig. 407 and plate 45, fig. 5) from 
terrace B, between +21 feet 5 inches and +23 feet 7 inches. The greater part 
of the fragments found are of marble, but two of alabaster were collected. The 
finds all come from the lowest layer of terrace B and are important in connection 
with the buildings found there. While the marble and alabaster vessels are smooth, 
two fragments with incised patterns (S.K. 169) belonging to a small shallow cup 
of dark gray-greenstone, are shown in fig. 408 and plate 45, fig. 6, from the upper 
digging between +25 feet 5 inches and +29 feet. 
FROM UPPER STRATA OF SOUTH KURGAN, CULTURE IV. 
Whorls.—The number of whorls found in the upper strata of the South Kurgan 
was strikingly small. They have no peculiarities of form. Some are conical, as 
S.K. 121 (fig. 409 and plate 46, fig. 1); some are double-conical, and truncated 
like S.K. 33 (fig. 410 and plate 46, fig. 2); some, as is more usual, are furnished with 
a depression as in $.K. 3 (fig. 411 and 
plate 46, fig. 3). Ornamented whorls 
Ss) occur also in these layers, the patterns 
405 (X 0.5) 407 (X05) 404(X0.5) 406 (0.5) 
consisting throughout of contiguous 
short curved lines—the favorite motif 
408 (x 0.5) of ornamentation of the middle and 
Y KORY Wey )_~«lower strata. 
YP CORY WY 
Flint wmplements.—Flint imple- 
409 (0.5) 410 (X0.5) 411 (0.5) 
ments are also rare in the upper strata. 
—~ A knife (S.K. 53; fig. 412 and plate 
i 46, fig. 4) may serve as a specimen; 
= also a two-edged saw (S.K. 13; fig. 
413 and plate 46, fig. 5), and a one- 
edged saw (S.K. 100; fig. 414 and plate 46, fig. 6). It is not determinable 
whether these belong to the culture of the upper strata or, as older artefacts, 
came accidentally into the deposit of that time. 
Miscellaneous.—A lenticular mace (S.K. 38; fig. 415 and plate 46, fig. 8) 
from the débris of the upper digging from between +45 feet 11 inches and +47 
feet, stands by itself. It is made of violet-gray stone, is polished, and has an 
unfinished perforation. In the hole on one side there still remains a part of the 
drill-core. Among the miscellaneous objects there is an awl-shaped bone imple- 
ment with a longitudinal channel (S.K. 44; fig. 416; plate 46, fig. 7), also found 
in the upper digging, between +43 feet and +45 feet 11 inches. 
One is disposed to regard the greater part of the separate finds from the upper 
layers with more or less skepticism. They add nothing to our knowledge of the 
culture characterized by the finds of iron in these strata, and only future studies 
can determine whether they are to be referred to the older culture and have come 
accidentally into the younger layers. 

