(Hrsg.) Yavneh I: The Excavation of the 'Temple Hill' Repository Pit. Fire Pans, Kernos, Naos, Painted Stands, ‘Plain’ Pottery, Cypriot Pottery, Inscribed Bowl, Dog Bones, Stone Fragments, and Other Studies

fragments of these sarcophagi survive. The appliqués, which have been found in large numbers, were painted with bright colours, traces of which still can be perceived. Heights of individual appliqués range [...] Bosporan appliqués, nor are any arrows visible. It would be possible, of course, to assume additional painted decoration on the walls of the sarcophagi which might have indicated the weapons used by the deities [...] no information about such additional painting, and it seems rather unlikely that the deities were painted instead of sculpted as appliqués. Although there are some obvious discrepancies with regard to