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that both of our boards were inlaid in the tops of wooden draughts-boxes which have perished. The method of composing the gaming board of plaques long and short and dividing them with narrow strips recalls that of gaming boards from Ur (1) where the squares are of shell or black shale with lapis lazuli or mother of pearl edgings. All the pieces of our gaming boards are of ivory coloured with green pigment of which traces are still preserved.
The date of these boards is given by the ceramic finds in the pit where they were discovered, which indicate the LCIIB or C period,i.e. the thirteenth century (2). This would mean that the pit belonged to the earlier remains on the site and that at the time of the erection of the compound it had already been filled and fallen into disuse.
Bronze statuette of a female deity (?) (Inv. 271 on Pl. LXXV, 1).
This statuette, which mesures 5cms in height , was
(1). E.g. L. Woollen, Ur Excavations, II, Pl. 99b and 103 (9112) (2). They include chiefly white slip II bowls, white shaved juglets, and a number of Levanto-Mycenean fragments.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain