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In these artisans' houses, objects are rare. A knife and an iron blade were found on floors characterise ed by pottery with wavy-line decoration of the end of the XIIè century. Moreover, this sector lends itself particularly well to thanks to the almost complete absence of disturbance by tomb robbers, the study of pottery sequences in the levels most recent, the only ones touched this year by excavation. In the middle of this popular quarter, a building doubtless important makes itself known, in the western part of the area, at barely 0,35m below the present surface of the site, by the thickness of some of its walls and by three large stones intended to support wooden columns. Near the street, in this building, a l gargoyle of white limestone was recovered, one face of which bears six deeply incised Cypro-Minoan signs, perhaps the only case so far of an inscription on stone in this script.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain