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50 EXPLORATIONS IN MOCHLOS
ing a metre above the floor of the antechamber. It shows no
trace of the early triangular shape which can still be observed
in the case of No. IV, 17, and without doubt belongs to the
M. M. Ill period.
IV. 19, 20 (no illustration). Two large unpainted jars of M.
M. Ill date (height 38.5 cm., diameter 30 cm.).
IV. 21 (no illustration). Large M. M. Ill clay bowl shaped
like a modern flower pot. It is unpainted (height 11 cm., diam-
eter 20 cm.).
Tomb VI
This tomb seems to have been the oldest in the cemetery of Moch-
los and also to have suffered least at the hands of later intruders.
Although the upper part of the chamber contained some remains of
the M. M. Ill age, the people of that period never cut deep enough
to disturb the bulk of the original interments. In fact the fragments
of M. M. Ill pottery which lay deepest were stillnearly 50 cm. above
the rock floor of the tomb.
The chamber measures 3.90 m. in length and 1.80 m. in width.
The depth from the top of the wall to the deepest part of the burial
deposit is 3.85 m. The only doorway, as has been said (p. 40), led
into Tomb IV (Fig. 15).
The objects were all found, mixed with a confused mass of bones,
lying on the uneven rock floor. At the north end, as in Tomb II, a
deep cavity was revealed, containing a quantity of beads, vases and
small objects of various sorts. The pottery on the floor of the tomb
and from the 50 cm. of soil immediately above it is all of E. M. II
date and belongs to the first part of that period, when the grey sub-
neolithic clays and the buff polished wares which preceded the
mottled fabrics were still in use.
The east wall, which was built against the cliff, had fallen for-
ward into the chamber at an early date, covering the burial deposit
with a thick layer of fallen stones. In the M. M. period this
fallen wall was partly rebuilt. In laying the new foundation the
builders did not go deep enough to find the top of the original wall
but placed the new one somewhat farther forward, thus making the
tomb chamber much narrower. It is certain that we owe the preser-
vation of the original tomb deposit to this fallen wall since it baffled
the people of the M. M. period, who never attempted to carry
their curious burrowing operations through this layer of fallen
debris. This tomb is the only one of the six in which the M. M.
ing a metre above the floor of the antechamber. It shows no
trace of the early triangular shape which can still be observed
in the case of No. IV, 17, and without doubt belongs to the
M. M. Ill period.
IV. 19, 20 (no illustration). Two large unpainted jars of M.
M. Ill date (height 38.5 cm., diameter 30 cm.).
IV. 21 (no illustration). Large M. M. Ill clay bowl shaped
like a modern flower pot. It is unpainted (height 11 cm., diam-
eter 20 cm.).
Tomb VI
This tomb seems to have been the oldest in the cemetery of Moch-
los and also to have suffered least at the hands of later intruders.
Although the upper part of the chamber contained some remains of
the M. M. Ill age, the people of that period never cut deep enough
to disturb the bulk of the original interments. In fact the fragments
of M. M. Ill pottery which lay deepest were stillnearly 50 cm. above
the rock floor of the tomb.
The chamber measures 3.90 m. in length and 1.80 m. in width.
The depth from the top of the wall to the deepest part of the burial
deposit is 3.85 m. The only doorway, as has been said (p. 40), led
into Tomb IV (Fig. 15).
The objects were all found, mixed with a confused mass of bones,
lying on the uneven rock floor. At the north end, as in Tomb II, a
deep cavity was revealed, containing a quantity of beads, vases and
small objects of various sorts. The pottery on the floor of the tomb
and from the 50 cm. of soil immediately above it is all of E. M. II
date and belongs to the first part of that period, when the grey sub-
neolithic clays and the buff polished wares which preceded the
mottled fabrics were still in use.
The east wall, which was built against the cliff, had fallen for-
ward into the chamber at an early date, covering the burial deposit
with a thick layer of fallen stones. In the M. M. period this
fallen wall was partly rebuilt. In laying the new foundation the
builders did not go deep enough to find the top of the original wall
but placed the new one somewhat farther forward, thus making the
tomb chamber much narrower. It is certain that we owe the preser-
vation of the original tomb deposit to this fallen wall since it baffled
the people of the M. M. period, who never attempted to carry
their curious burrowing operations through this layer of fallen
debris. This tomb is the only one of the six in which the M. M.