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KAUKKATIS.
of the path, at about this level, B5; Gs; L1
(brownish); P, amphora, large, thick, scraped
down on outside; and W3. At this level, or a
few inches higher, the fine kylix with Ulysses tied
on beneath the ram, now in the British Museum;
it is of L1 with black figures and applied red.
At 335 occurred the scarab stratum, in the site
marked Scarabs on pi. xli., in the south-west part
of the town. This bed had been mostly cut away
before I came to Naukratis, and what was left was
but scanty. Some good fragments of pottery were
recovered along with the scarabaei and moulds in
this stratum. The varieties are B2; B3; C2, with
brown spots; C4, fine-faced, with lotus and honey-
suckle, and row of crescents in brown-orange, and
hard with pattern of Polemarchos vase neck,
(pi. vi. 3); A, incised wet, and 'pilgrim bottle'
made on a bag; Dl; D5, smooth; E; F1; F2,
both fine and thick; F3 thick; F4;muchofF5;
F6; F8; F9; also a terra-cotta solid bust of F2;
G2; G5, a fine pottery lamp, open dish type, with
small spout; J4; K1, black, lustrous, thick; L1,
greyish, lustrous, and foot of kylix; N, brownish,
chequers on edge; O6, chequers; P, large amphorae,
scraped down; S2, swan or harpy; T, and with
animal figure in dish, and red and white lines;
"NY2, white faced. The other classes of objects
found in this house are described in Chapter V.
The age of the close of this deposit can be safely
fixed at about 570 B.C., and hence the pottery and
other objects probably range from that year back
to about COO b.c.
At about the same level, or 340, a little way
south of the scarab factory, some pottery was
taken from a road, just below the level at which
the custom of mending roads with limestone dust
was begun. This pottery is of the types B4, with
rouge-red facing polished, jug; G2; L1, and kylix
base; O2; Q1; S1, brownish; W3, like the large
black amphora (pi. xvi. C), which is like certain
pottery of the Polledrara tomb; and white-faced
amphora with red stripes. Chipped pottery
dranghtmen were also found.
A few inches higher a deposit of pottery at the
middle of the east side of the cleared area (about
the lower word Iron on pi. xli.), at level 345, con-
tained more B5 with rouge-red facing, polished, a
flat cup and a small neckless vase; a little drab
aryballos, and M2 base of a bowl with gorgon's
head, which type is very common at Naukratis.
A bronze weight filled with lead, and a soft yellow
paste eye and bead covered with blue wash, were
also found here.
In the potters' rubbish in the north-east of the
town at 350 level were found B5 whorls; A, a fine-
ribbed dish, smooth-faced; F2, and same thicker;
G2 ; L1.
At 360 to 400 a road was cleared about 200 feet
north of the scarab factory; this contained B4
rouge-red facing; C3 dishes with flat brim, and of
thick bowl type; C4; A amphora neck of type
(pi. xvii. 22), and also with black lines, circles,
&c.; F6; F12; G1; J3; L1; P thickish drab bowl
with short vertical brim (like that of 320 level);
Q1; Q* aryballos; W8.
At the same level, or 370, on the middle of the
east side of the town, was found a curious dish of
B5; a small flat pan with a circular cup in the
middle and the space outside of the cup divided
into two parts by walls connecting the cup and
the side of the pan. Other such dishes were
found divided into three segments beside the cup.
Some way higher, at about 420 level, a quantity
of pottery was taken from the bands of road-
mending formed of limestone dust on the south-
west of the town, a little south of the scarab factory.
This was of C4; E with brown face and red lines,
a pivot lamp, and therefore probably after the
central tube lamps by its form, as we see it to be
by its level; F8, brown, animals, &c, incised; F11;
L2; together with rude stone figures of birds with
hinging heads, the heads now lost and only the
joint showing at the neck; a piece of alabaster
from a vase-maker's; and an extremely rough re-
cumbent female figure. From about this level to
450, road-mending on the west of the town, also
yielded B6(?); Fe; L1 and L2.
Finally, road-mending on the east of the town,
KAUKKATIS.
of the path, at about this level, B5; Gs; L1
(brownish); P, amphora, large, thick, scraped
down on outside; and W3. At this level, or a
few inches higher, the fine kylix with Ulysses tied
on beneath the ram, now in the British Museum;
it is of L1 with black figures and applied red.
At 335 occurred the scarab stratum, in the site
marked Scarabs on pi. xli., in the south-west part
of the town. This bed had been mostly cut away
before I came to Naukratis, and what was left was
but scanty. Some good fragments of pottery were
recovered along with the scarabaei and moulds in
this stratum. The varieties are B2; B3; C2, with
brown spots; C4, fine-faced, with lotus and honey-
suckle, and row of crescents in brown-orange, and
hard with pattern of Polemarchos vase neck,
(pi. vi. 3); A, incised wet, and 'pilgrim bottle'
made on a bag; Dl; D5, smooth; E; F1; F2,
both fine and thick; F3 thick; F4;muchofF5;
F6; F8; F9; also a terra-cotta solid bust of F2;
G2; G5, a fine pottery lamp, open dish type, with
small spout; J4; K1, black, lustrous, thick; L1,
greyish, lustrous, and foot of kylix; N, brownish,
chequers on edge; O6, chequers; P, large amphorae,
scraped down; S2, swan or harpy; T, and with
animal figure in dish, and red and white lines;
"NY2, white faced. The other classes of objects
found in this house are described in Chapter V.
The age of the close of this deposit can be safely
fixed at about 570 B.C., and hence the pottery and
other objects probably range from that year back
to about COO b.c.
At about the same level, or 340, a little way
south of the scarab factory, some pottery was
taken from a road, just below the level at which
the custom of mending roads with limestone dust
was begun. This pottery is of the types B4, with
rouge-red facing polished, jug; G2; L1, and kylix
base; O2; Q1; S1, brownish; W3, like the large
black amphora (pi. xvi. C), which is like certain
pottery of the Polledrara tomb; and white-faced
amphora with red stripes. Chipped pottery
dranghtmen were also found.
A few inches higher a deposit of pottery at the
middle of the east side of the cleared area (about
the lower word Iron on pi. xli.), at level 345, con-
tained more B5 with rouge-red facing, polished, a
flat cup and a small neckless vase; a little drab
aryballos, and M2 base of a bowl with gorgon's
head, which type is very common at Naukratis.
A bronze weight filled with lead, and a soft yellow
paste eye and bead covered with blue wash, were
also found here.
In the potters' rubbish in the north-east of the
town at 350 level were found B5 whorls; A, a fine-
ribbed dish, smooth-faced; F2, and same thicker;
G2 ; L1.
At 360 to 400 a road was cleared about 200 feet
north of the scarab factory; this contained B4
rouge-red facing; C3 dishes with flat brim, and of
thick bowl type; C4; A amphora neck of type
(pi. xvii. 22), and also with black lines, circles,
&c.; F6; F12; G1; J3; L1; P thickish drab bowl
with short vertical brim (like that of 320 level);
Q1; Q* aryballos; W8.
At the same level, or 370, on the middle of the
east side of the town, was found a curious dish of
B5; a small flat pan with a circular cup in the
middle and the space outside of the cup divided
into two parts by walls connecting the cup and
the side of the pan. Other such dishes were
found divided into three segments beside the cup.
Some way higher, at about 420 level, a quantity
of pottery was taken from the bands of road-
mending formed of limestone dust on the south-
west of the town, a little south of the scarab factory.
This was of C4; E with brown face and red lines,
a pivot lamp, and therefore probably after the
central tube lamps by its form, as we see it to be
by its level; F8, brown, animals, &c, incised; F11;
L2; together with rude stone figures of birds with
hinging heads, the heads now lost and only the
joint showing at the neck; a piece of alabaster
from a vase-maker's; and an extremely rough re-
cumbent female figure. From about this level to
450, road-mending on the west of the town, also
yielded B6(?); Fe; L1 and L2.
Finally, road-mending on the east of the town,