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III D.… on the earth floor a fragment of a steatite idol (102) is found. The flint density is decreasing. Below the floor the flint density decreases further. The usual post-support of house III is not found in the centre of the house but displaced towards the west. In the centre a thick charcoal layer indicates that a fire had been lit.
House IVIV AHouse IV lies somewhat beneath House I. Then the floor in this was hacked up and deep-dug down to the rock in the eastern parts, which is found at the level 1,65–1,70. In the western parts, on the other hand, another floor is found at the same level, consisting of a very hard reddish, almost brick-fired clay. The floor belongs to a house whose round circular wall can be traced all round at the said level. This is house IV. The wall is very carelessly laid of fist-sized stones. No doorway can be made out. The floor seems in the earliest architecture on Cyprus to have been the important element, later the walls played a greater … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain