Report on the 1955 seasonH. de Contenson

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2/ Room to the West of Pt.71. It is a small hall 1.50 wide, open towards the South. On a paving situated at a depth of 70 cm., lay painted sherds of Late Bronze III-II (Pt. 90), among which fragments of a 14th c. krater, with vertical handles at the shoulder, flattened rim and fish-scale decoration.

3/ Halls to the West of the paving. Four rooms of irregular shape form a block and belong certainly to the same house unit. Only that of the North-East has yielded some objects, distributed in two layers main.

The upper layer corresponds to Iron I and contains a late "bucchero" jug, at a depth of 0.25 m. (Pt. 62).

The lower layer, between 0.60 and 0.80, depth at which fixxxxxxxxx contains a mixture: the pottery of the beginning of Iron is still abundant: carinated bowls, bowls with decoration of concentric circles, "bucchero"; Late Bronze III is rare: "milk bowl", "base ring", Cypro-Mycenaean, as well as two bowls with horned lugs, one with a perforated lug and carinated, the other with an unperforated lug and linear decoration brown; Middle Bronze III is well represented especially in the South part: "red on red", lustrous red, wavy black bands on white ground, handles with rectangular profile, "red on black", sherds of jars with relief bands, either a series of pellets, or an indented cordon, or a wide band covered with fine cross-hatched incisions.

At 0.90 m., in the South part, was recovered a kind of bronze spatula Pt. 77). The virgin soil was reached at 1.10.

4/ House to the East of the public building. Two North-South walls delimit a house 8 m. wide, of which three rooms, succeeding one another from North to South, have been cleared.

The back room seems to have been damaged by the industrial installation of Pt. 47, which must be later than it; one can attribute to the activity of this workshop a heap of ash grey