Report by Courtois on Enkomi 1970Jacques-Claude Courtois

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is attested in the Aegean world, at Rhodes (necropolis of Jalisos),

and in protohistoric Europe in the earliest Urnfields of the Tyrol

, of Bavaria and of Italy . Its presence now in the island of Cyprus, would

in our view be attributed to the parallel and contemporary movement of the

false swords with silk and boriu parallels of the type of tomb 18 and of the

point of the Ankara 1967 bronzes ( type known as Hemmingen in Europe ).

In the adjoining rooms to the south-west of the house of the knives, one has

observed the constant superposition of level and floor IV , at about fifteen

centimetres above the fine white floor V, here lacking a layer of

ash . At the foot of a North-South wall of brown mudbrick on a foundation of

three courses of rubble, one cleared a single burial by inhumation,

oriented east-west, the skull at the west having been anciently destroyed

by a "pit" ; this burial of Cypriot Iron I was accompanied by a

jug of the Sea Peoples type , decorated with an incised bird .

Further east , two other seals of the same style, and of good workmanship, pro-

coming from levels III and IV of Cypriot Iron I ; again from level III,

it is worth mentioning a circular kiln measuring one metre in diameter,

in a rectangular room of 2 m 90 by 1 m 60 . Around this room,

the stratigraphic excavation has revealed thick layers of ash

fine grey, filled with sherds of pottery of Mycenaean III C 1

(Close style) ; these layers reaching 60 cm in thickness in certain

places . Below, fills containing sherds of the end of

the Middle Bronze and the beginning of the Cypriot Late Bronze , whereas the po-

intermediate Late Cypriot pottery was here largely

lacking . They were, on the other hand, encountered in another trench (N-S)

opened parallel to the sounding trench of the 1969 campaign . There, im-

portant remains of walls of Late Cypriot 2 were identified, despite

the disturbances due to the abundance of 'pits' or clandestine pits.

Several figurines of bovids in terracotta, and a lamp with a bull's head

come from this sector, which on the other hand lacked buildings of the

Cypriot Iron I .

-( Jacques-Claude Courtois )

30 . XI . 1970