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 2 the shoulder, flattened rim and fish-scale decoration.

3/ Halls to the West of the paving.

Four halls of irregular shape form a block and certainly appear to belong 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 Per I and contains a layer of late "bucchero", at a depth of 0.25 m. (pt. 62).

The lower layer, between 0.60 and 0.80, [illegible] contain a mixture: the pottery of the beginning of the Per is still abundant: carinated bowls, bowls with concentric circle decoration, "bucchero"; the Late Bronze III is there: "milk bowl", "base ring", Cypro-Mycenaean, as well as two bowls with horned lugs, one with a pierced lug and closed, the other with an unpierced lug and linear decoration brown; the Middle Bronze III is well represented especially in the South part: "red on red", lustrous red, black wavy bands on white ground, handles with rectangular profile, "red on black", sherds of jars with relief bands, either a series of parallels, or a broad convex band of crosshatched incised lines.

At 0.90 m., in the South part, was recovered a sort 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 bottom phase 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 ashes grey … continues