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were finding fragments of bronze and slag. Beside the jar, there was a bowl with concentric red circles on white ground of the sub-Mycenaean type ("Myc. III C 1") (Pt. 13), a painted sherd of "Close Style" type with cross-hatching and parallel of the end of the 13th c. and a fragment of a stylised terracotta (Pt. 14), a forepart of a bull in pottery base-ring with white decoration and two small pieces of leaf of gold (Pt. 17), as well as large pieces of slag. Beneath this last point, the floor gave way to a pit dug into the floor virgin ground to a depth of 1.85 and containing sherds of the Late Bronze, final, a fragment of a rouelle, a point and other fragments of bronze.
Again to the North-West, but nearer the door, one recovered a spherical bronze weight (Pt. 48) and a piece of lead (Pt. 49). In the North-East corner, an inscribed ball of terracotta, with 4 signs (Pt. 50) lay on the floor, with a thread coiled and a bronze knife; a little to the South, in the gap of the wall which seems to be a door towards the East courtyard, a pithos (Pt. 89) had collapsed onto the floor; it had been repaired in antiquity with lead clamps, straight or V-shaped; inside of this jar, there were "bucchero" type sherds.
The pottery associated with this layer belongs to the end of the Late Bronze: "milk bowl", "bucchero", painted sherds of the 13th c. jugs in white pottery with red decoration and pouring spout, lamp stands with long handle.
The same pottery appears in small fragments in the body of Floor II which, like the corresponding floor in the vestibule, is made up of a series of floors stepped between 1 m∕ and 1.25 to 1.30. Each of these floors had been well cleaned before laying the next ;however, a few objects were recovered: in the North- West corner, at 1.10, an ivory disc (Pt. 57); in the South- West corner, a stone (carved in the form of a bird), at 1.25 (Pt. 86); in the South-East corner, at the edge of the foundation trench, at 1.10, a bronze arrowhead (Pt. 87).
Beneath this floor, the layer of compact earth (layer 6) contains a number of small Middle Bronze III sherds (Pt. 56), similar to those found in the vestibule, between 1.25/1.30 and … continues
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