Report on the 1955 seasonH. de Contenson

Handwritten: 17

The upper floor or Floor I lies at a depth which varies from 0.50 in the North to 0.65 in the South. Above this hard white floor, one meets sherds of the initial Iron and a few objects: biconical bead in black stone with eight incised dotted circles, four on each side, at 0.10; pyramidal loom weight of baked clay, at 0.30; cylinder in black stone and head of rough clay figurine, at 0.40; arrowhead bent in bronze, at 0.50 (Pt. 53); incised clay ball with 3 lines, at 0.65 (Pt. 58). At the level of this floor, in the part South, one sees the top of large slabs, one of which, of irregular shape, bears groups of cup-marks.

Below this floor, one finds in a soft brown or black earth ashy numerous sherds of Late Bronze III-II: pottery knife-trimmed, including carinated bowls with "wish-bone handle", "milk bowl" monochrome and bichrome, and a pin bent in bronze, at 1.20 (Pt. 41). The lower white floor or Floor II is met between 1.00 and 1.25; in the South, below Pt. 58, it is cut by channels leading to the stone curb of a well; from this well, one removes a bowl with small foot with concentric circles noted on the inside and a basalt grinding stone.

At 1.40 depth, one finds a compact greenish earth with sherds of final Middle Bronze: "red on black", lustrous bowls red with flaring rim, thin "base ring" with flaring rim and chevrons in relief, down to the virgin soil which appears at 1.50.

C/ Hall to the West of the area of Pt. 21.

After a trench produced by the trench of 1949, one sees a room of which only the North-East corner has not been excavated; it is bounded to the East by a wall which runs along the North-South street, to the South by a perpendicular wall and to the West by a wall which forms soon a bend towards the West and leaves the limits of the trench; a section of the North wall has been cleared. This hall measures about 4.50 m. wide, but in an early phase, was divided in two by a North-South wall.