Area IR. Of great
interest is the fact
that the graves
are neither
concentrated nor
consistent in shape.
Grave 10, one of the best preserved pit burials in the cemetery.
The pottery is gathered around the head, and a small pot is set
inside the neck of the largest jar. {Above
) Photograph from
east; (below)drawing from west.
have found five types of graves in the
We
Shahr-i Sokhta cemetery: simple pit, bipartite
pit, catacomb, pseudo-catacomb and brick-built
graves. The pit grave, usually rectangular or
roughly circular in plan is the most common of
the five; the brick-built grave is the rarest. In
many instances the pit, bipartite and catacomb
graves were reused for subsequent inhumations which usually followed not long after the
first. In the case of the pit graves this reuse
often involved the deepening and widening of
the burial as well as the removal of all or part of
its filling. Despite the practice of reutilization,
there is only one example of an earlier burial
being damaged or disturbed by a later one. (In
phase 3, Grave 118 damaged the earlier Grave
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