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graves were dug into the upper reaches of the mound, and in
the fourth century marble sielce and flat altarlike tombstones
were placed near the top.
As the funeral monuments increased in beauty and im-
portance, the actual furniture of the graves beneath them grew
more and more scanty: no more rich offerings, just a few pots
and implements. In most cases these vases were ordinary con-
tainers for food or toiletries, oil or ointments. A sort of foun-
dation cream from Lydia in Asia Minor, bakkaris, was evi-
dently in great demand during the sixth century.0 We found
both the original Lydian pots of special shape in which it was
imported and Attic imitations. Occasionally finds of intrinsic
artistic value offered us happy surprises: Plate 23 shows two
choice clay vases, a sprinkler with a mourning scene and a
round box with fleeing Nereids. A'splendid great bowl of
bronze contained cremated human remains, wrapped in a cloth Plate
embroidered with purple squares. The bowl itself was care- 24b
iully wrapped in a mat with broad purple stripes and placed,
with two toilet boxes of alabaster, in a wooden chest. This, in
its turn, stood in a limestone sarcophagus, in the middle of a
large chamber of sun-dried bricks. I mention this tomb here,
although it belongs to a later date (below P. 27), because such
elaborate arrangements curiously like the successive covers,
cases and boxes which protect Far Eastern porcelain, no
doubt already occurred in the sixth century. But no other
case of such perfect preservation is known to me.
6) See A. Rumpf in A. M. 45, 1920, pp. 163 S. Th. L. Shear, A, }. A.
XXXIV, 1930, p. 422, Fig. 15.
graves were dug into the upper reaches of the mound, and in
the fourth century marble sielce and flat altarlike tombstones
were placed near the top.
As the funeral monuments increased in beauty and im-
portance, the actual furniture of the graves beneath them grew
more and more scanty: no more rich offerings, just a few pots
and implements. In most cases these vases were ordinary con-
tainers for food or toiletries, oil or ointments. A sort of foun-
dation cream from Lydia in Asia Minor, bakkaris, was evi-
dently in great demand during the sixth century.0 We found
both the original Lydian pots of special shape in which it was
imported and Attic imitations. Occasionally finds of intrinsic
artistic value offered us happy surprises: Plate 23 shows two
choice clay vases, a sprinkler with a mourning scene and a
round box with fleeing Nereids. A'splendid great bowl of
bronze contained cremated human remains, wrapped in a cloth Plate
embroidered with purple squares. The bowl itself was care- 24b
iully wrapped in a mat with broad purple stripes and placed,
with two toilet boxes of alabaster, in a wooden chest. This, in
its turn, stood in a limestone sarcophagus, in the middle of a
large chamber of sun-dried bricks. I mention this tomb here,
although it belongs to a later date (below P. 27), because such
elaborate arrangements curiously like the successive covers,
cases and boxes which protect Far Eastern porcelain, no
doubt already occurred in the sixth century. But no other
case of such perfect preservation is known to me.
6) See A. Rumpf in A. M. 45, 1920, pp. 163 S. Th. L. Shear, A, }. A.
XXXIV, 1930, p. 422, Fig. 15.