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AREA A STRATUM E HOUSE A.VIII
Before listing the stratification of house A.VIII proper, the two following deposits are listed, which are stratified in relation to this house, but do not fit easily into the stratigraphical scheme of the area as a whole, and are therefore not given stratigraphical numbers:
(x,1) The L.C.II strata under the floor of rooms 3 and 4 contained the following sherds:
75% plain [handwritten: some PWM II] 1 Sherd L.H.III(Sh99) [handwritten: Cypro Mycenaean] 1 " White Slip II 2 " Base Ring 2 " Brown Burnished 1 " Wash Ware 5 " Red Polished, etc. 12 decorated sherds.
The above are listed under the following field designations: 2:1, 9.76/9.98 to 9.76/10.14; 2:2, 9.84 to 9.93; do., 9.93 to 10.03; do., 10.03 to 10.09.
(x,2) The footing trench of the early wall at the SW side of room 4 (listed in the sherds as 2:4, W. Baugrab). The sherds were:
90% plain [handwritten: pithos ware] 1 sherd L.H.III P/C 1 decorated sherd.
The stratification in stratum E is as follows:
E(1) The construction of the house is dated by material in the floors and footing trenches.
All levels of stratum D in at least houses A.V, A.VI, and A.VI.a, antedate the construction of house A.VIII. The sherds in the levels listed here are:
80% plain [handwritten: 41 PWM II] 1 sherd Submycenaean Bichrome (Sh390) 22 " L.C.III Painted (join of SH108) [handwritten: Sh 108 LCIII buildings? at Unit 19 front wall or Late Myc.] [handwritten: maybe Iron Age or see Protobronze(?)] 1 " Foreign (?) Painted 1 " 3 White Slip II(?) + 1 WSI(?) 4 " Base Ring [handwritten: 43] 7 " Wash ware [handwritten: 75] 11 " Red Polished (Sh94) [handwritten: + 1 black slip] 8 decorated sherds [handwritten: 49 / 59]
E(2) The following vases were found in and on the accumulation and floors:
L.C.III Painted: 1 chalice (P741) [handwritten: P2843 Community]
L.C.III Fine plain ware: 1 bowl with wishbone handle (P733)
L.C.III Plain ware: 6 jugs with handle to neck (P747, 779, 780, 793, 803, 814) 4 amphoroid kraters (P767,778, 783, 804) 1 neck-amphora (P802)
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain