GROUPOF POTS in chamberof shaft tomb (A 43). Note "Proto-UrbanB" spouted vesselwith groups of parallel painted lines on top of pots at left. The group of small pots in bowl at upper center includestypical Early BronzeII lattice-paintedjuglets. SPOUTEDJAR FROMTOMB A 43 (19.5 cm. tall); two ledge handles;shoulderknobs;painteddark red. JUGLETFROMSHAFTTOMBA 4. Red painted lattice is typicalof Early BronzeII. continued Cemetery was a clear impression of cloth on a long bone. In another tomb the marks of the tools used to carve out the chamber were beautifully preserved. Several had bones scattered through the tomb and pots heaped up on them. One contained two articulated burials together with the usual disarticulated deposit. Most fascinating was the discovery, during the tedious job of clearing out and recording the bone pile, of the first female figurine of unbaked clay, a prototype of the Late Bronze type with exaggerated pierced ears. Three bone piles produced seven of these figurines. The most exciting experience of the dig came with the removal of a blocking stone from the first perno fectly sealed chamber we discovered. Despite dislocation by roof fall and silting we were fairly sure of the original tomb plans, but here was a chamber with each pot and bone just as it had been left over forty-five hundred years ago. The serrated marks of the flint tool with which the chamber had been cut were preserved over the entire domed surface. The lines of the mat on which the bone pile had been laid were clear, and beneath were cracks in the floor which had dried out before the mat was laid. Twenty-five pots were neatly stacked and nested, and it was clear that they had never contained food or liquid ; in fact, they had never been used and most of them did not even need dusting. There was a neat line of skulls : three adults, one child and one infant. The long bones of adults