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… jewellery. Group 1 is an absolutely colossal tightly packed accumulation. It is not lifted up but is taken out in situ in a specially constructed box. The other groups are packed as they come, in cardboard boxes, since the beads are, owing to the damp, too soft to be lifted
14.Necklace of river-shell beads in 4 groups.
15 Red Pol. hemisph. bowl diam 10.2
2 st bones of the animal skeleton are plastered and the rest are packed in parcels, except for a couple of pieces of a rib, which must be sacrificed in order to be able to lift the beads, group 1.
5/11Because the beads of group no. 1 lay so tightly packed one must on closer efreflection rule out the possibility that they slid down from the niche. They lie admittedly in situ. Absence of human skeletal parts and the accumulation of animal bones must therefore mean that we are faced with the remains of a once festively decorated sacrificial animal.
7/11The tomb is cleared out by hand. Its … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain