Excavation notebook of Courtois, Enkomi 1965Jacques-Claude Courtois

start of the excavation of hearth 911; it is the first time that stones are met in so large number. Embedded in the middle of the stones and at the base of the clay cap loaded with charcoal (vegetal or animal.) several fine sherds, including a fragment of a "wavy line" bowl and the remains of a figurine (human or animal?) of fine quality, as well as a shell (l. 6,^cms3 × 4^cm, 7) of the family Muricinae. Fig 5 The continuation of the clearing inside the hearth, after having removed the layer of sherds, yielded a clayey fill reddish brown with traces of charcoal, corresponding to what we found under the sandy floor. to the outside (E.) P Below, a circular construction with walls vertical F4 Q; Fig 6 made of two white, hard and thick layers each of 5^mm, enclosing a clay partition (thickness # 5), height preserved of this low wall 4^cms. The interior surface of F4 is covered with this same solid white material. Q For the clarity of the photographic presentation of the level F4 of 911, we had to remove the slab ^N triangular, bonded to F3; we then found under it, an inverted truncated-conical cavity ^S, diam. # 15^cm height, containing no infiltrated earth, but