Report on the 1955 seasonH. de Contenson

5/ Corridor to the West of the courtyard of Pt. 24. This corridor, of the same orientation as the preceding ones, does not exceed 1 m. in width; it has a white floor and a paving at 1.25 depth. The material above this floor is mixed: one red-slipped lustrous sherd is of Hellenistic character; the rest belongs to the beginning of the Iron Age: weight made of a pebble hammered at the ends (Pt. 7), tuyères, large bowl or crucible in greenish-white paste, bowl with inturned rim and concentric red circles on the interior.

Under the floor and down to the virgin soil at 1.60,, one meets pottery of the beginning of the Late Bronze Age (II-I): hand-made bowls, very primitive "milk bowl", early "base ring", = but above all of the end of the Middle Bronze Age: "red on red", "red on black", decoration of wavy and straight lines in black or red on a light ground, juglet with narrow neck and a well-preserved handle, decorated with horizontal lines on the neck and handle, with crossed lines on the body, handles of rectangular profile, bowl with horned lug handle and "red on red" decoration, lustrous red or chamois sherds, base of pithos neck with relief band with parallel incisions.

6/ Room to the North-East of the public building. After an empty space to the West of this corridor, one sees to the West a room whose North edge has disappeared and which measures 2.50 in width. In the South-East corner is the coping of a well, beside which two bone styli were collected, one complete (Pt. 6), on a floor at 0.80; this belongs to Iron I.

Under this floor, one meets first a layer of the Final Bronze Age between 0.80 and 1.00, with "milk bowl", - then a layer of the Middle Bronze III between 1.00 and 1.50, level of the virgin soil.

7/ Courtyard to the North of the public building. The last section of this trench towards the West is formed by a courtyard, in the South-East corner of which is a cesspit or a sanitary installation.