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AREA A STRATUM D HOUSE A.VI
D(1) Material antedating the construction of the house was found over stratum B(5), NE of the stratum A cutting. The sherds were:
75% plain sherd [handwritten: 4 PWM II] 1 " " [handwritten: Sh 463] 1 L.H.III, coarse tempered 2 " " White Slip II 6 " " White Slip I decorated sherds
D(2) The use of the house during stratum D is dated by the material found on the floor, sunk beneath the floor, and in and on the accumulation. This includes the following pots:
L.C.III Painted: 2 curved bowls (P785, 795) 1 bowl with flaring belly and wishbone handle (P746) Buchero, wheel-made of dark clay: 1 Jug (P755) L.C.III Plain ware: 1 Jug (?) (P781) 2 Shoulder-amphorae, inscribed (P774, 777) 1 Pithos (P796)
The sherds left after mending the above pots were the following:
85% plain sherds [handwritten: 79 L.C.III Painted (Sh123)] 13 White Slip 15 Base Ring 21 Wash ware 1 Hand-made red-slip, painted 1 Brown Burnished 3 Black Slip 3 Red Polished 136 decorated sherds
D(3) The building debris contained the following sherds:
85% plain sherds 15 L.C.III Painted (Sh116) 1 "R.L.III" 15 White Slip (Sh118) 17 Base Ring 33 Wash ware 1 Light burnished 14 Black Slip 1 Red Polished, etc. (One sherd of Sh67) 1 Painted "Neolithic" (Sh117: reserved slip?) 98 decorated sherds
The above strata consists of the following levels as recorded in the field
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain