Excavation notebook of Courtois, Enkomi 1965Jacques-Claude Courtois

south face of this balk 911 a very curious stratifica tion of about ten layers of ash and sand alternating, the whole over only 2 ^cms in thickness. Another interesting detail that we shall see again later: A triangular limestone slab^N (# 45^cms × 30^cms) placed against the low wall east of F3, and of which only one sees at this level the upper face. Among the sherds of common pottery^/1 which constitute -ute F3 we were able to note ( ) a neck, a thick jar base, four fragmentary handles one of them on a substantial piece of wall with marked carination. But no painted sherd. Leaving in place the low wall that supports F3, we continued our investigations, on the one hand, at the heart of F3 where — there appeared beneath the central core of red clay,^O the continuation of the sherd lining, slightly sunk by a few centimetres. There is therefore no, in F3, this central clay mass which is common to F1 and F2 On the other hand, beneath the layer of sand east of F3 we found a layer of greasy earth passing gradually from brown to intense black^P. In the middle of this black level appeared a whole series of irregular stones (of 8 to 12^cms c. ). Since the

¹ All of these pottery is of yellow-grey or beige-pink fired clay, solid.