72 THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN ANAU. 
9.K. 311; plate 47, fig. 5). I think I can recognize an ox in the large fragment 
of whitish-green clay in $.K. 83. It is shown on plate 47, fig. 4, and comes from 
the upper digging. The standing figure (S.K. 356; plate 47, fig. 6) is unique 
in the collection. It is a flattened form, thickened and contracted on one side 
and having on the other side a small elevation. On both sides of the latter the 
edge is marked with fine lines. In this, perhaps, we may see the plastic repre- 
sentation of a flying bird. ‘Two objects difficult of explanation may, perhaps, 
be abbreviated representations of horned animals (S.K. 345; plate 47, fig. 7; and 
S.K. 329; plate 47, fig. 8). Both are provided with a surface to stand upon and 
stand erect like skittles. On the upper edge of one there are two horns directed 
toward one side. The other has two points which turn to opposite sides. 
In the North Kurgan also, two fragments of animal figures were found; one 
(N.K. 72) comes from the surface, the other (N.K. 239) 
from the north digging Iv, but in the heart of the hill 
they have not been observed. It must be left to the 
future to determine whether such figures had a signifi- 
cance in connection with the older cultures of Anau. 
Children’s playthings.—In both hills little balls of 
clay and stone often came to light, the first sometimes 
ornamented with incised markings. While only isolated 
finds of this kind were made in the North Kurgan (N.K. 
90, 127, 166, 184, 230), they occurred in surprisingly large 
numbers in the South Kurgan, especially 
S in the same layers of terrace B with the 
4 ; f ; animal and human figures we have just 
| -\\ described. Besides these, the same layers 
i ee --- of the South Kurgan yielded clay wheels 
ie. alee of different forms. Some are flat and disk- 
shaped, being but little thicker in the center 
a ae i than on the edge, as in S.K. 161 (plate 47, 
. =A Sex, fig. 10) and in fig. 417; the others have a 
" Cir ee OF strongly developed hub as in S.K. 134 
Fe Gene = (fig. 418 and plate 47, fig. 9). From these 
clay wheels we inferred that they had also produced imitations of wagons. In 
one case we were really able to identify a wagon-box made of clay (S.K. 211). 
The bottom and the side view of this are given in fig. 419 and plate 47, fig. 11. 
It was found in terrace C, between +21 feet 2 inches and +23 feet 2 inches. 
The upper edge and one of the narrow sides are broken off. The form is elongated 
with rounded-off sides. Its significance is clearly shown by the holes for axles 
which traverse the thick bottom, both in front and behind. ‘They can scarcely 
have served for any other purpose than the attachment of the numerous wheels 
that were found. Whether in this connection the animal and human figures are 
also to be considered as children’s playthings remains an open question. Nothing 
stands in the way of so considering the animal figures; but in the case of the 
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