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… drums, one of which bears a letter that appears Greek, seems to indicate that they were deliberately thrown there. Although their dimensions (90 cm. diam.) curiously match those of the rectangular square plinth, it is unlikely that they belonged to this monument and one may suppose that they were shaped in the Classical period. The state of the monument that we are studying moreover suggests that it served as a quarry after its abandonment; perhaps work was begun to cut on site these elements with the intention of transporting them to Salamis, which succeeded Enkomi in the Classical period; for some reason, the work was interrupted, which would explain the irregular and unfinished appearance of the column drums, and the blocks were tipped into the well. One may note the presence of a fragment of tile (Pt. 85), at 0.90 m., on the spot where there should be the wall running along the East-West street. The cutting of the walls north of the vestibule may have given rise to these lenses of limestone that were precisely noticed in this area.
Elsewhere, the surface layer contains mainly remains of Iron I: a calcite bowl at 0.40 (Pt. 5), fragments of jars; a ribbed blue faience bead (Pt. 83), found at 0.40, between the South wall and the East-West road, is older but in a disturbed layer.
Floor I, with the layer of soft brown and ashy earth that overlies it, represents the last occupation of the building. In fact, the present top of the best preserved walls lies at a depth of 0.50 and coincides with the appearance of this layer. The pottery encountered down to the floor at 0.70 and inside the floor of lime down to 0.75, belongs to Iron I, with sherds "wavy line" ("Myc. III C 2"), around 1100 B.C. It corresponds to Floor I in the West hall.
Floor II is covered by a habitation layer of reddish redish loose earth with, near a depth of 1 m., abundant ashes and numerous horizontal sherds. In this layer, one found, towards the North-West corner of the hall, a large crushed pithos, with broad flattened rim and decorated with incisions in wolf-tooth pattern framed by two lines, and horizontal handles fixed obliquely (Pt. 8); inside this jar there is
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain