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Handwritten: Report on excavations carried out in 1955 and 1958 at
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Handwritten: Ch. 3 Category / Good to consult / The Head of Archaeological Service / (C. Schaeffer) / 2.XII.70
Report on excavations carried out in 1955 and 1958 at THE 1955 CAMPAIGN AT ENKOMI (CYPRUS).
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Henri de Contenson
The trenches, whose supervision Mr C. Schaeffer had entrusted to us in 1955, were opened to the North and South of the 1949 area and are distributed on either side of an East-West street, north of a second East-West street situated south of the first and west of the only North-South street cleared so far, which cuts the East-West axes at right angles. This urban network will serve to delimit the various regions of the excavation.
I°.- North of the first East-West street.
Handwritten: Roman age
In the eastern part of the area, a narrow strip was explored along the northern edge of the northernmost East-West street. This region, very disturbed by clandestine excavations, has yielded no coherent architectural remains. One can only recognise there two occupation floors: one at 0,40 m., the other at 1,30 m depth, on virgin earth.
On the upper floor, a biconical spindle whorl of stone engraved with dotted circles (Pt. 35), and a hand-made pot with a handle, not very characteristic (Pt.26), were recovered.
On the lower floor, a number of objects were encountered at 1 m. depth: two earrings, one of bronze and the other of silver (Pt. 33), a squat vase (Pt. 32), an alabaster lid (Pt. 38), a fragment of bone stylus (Pt. 44), a piece of cut green stone and a bowl with low carination and small ring foot (Pt. 26). At 1,20 m. was found a conical loom weight of grey stone (Pt. 34). Immediately above the floor, at 1,30 m., the pottery remains of the beginning of Iron I were abundant: globular cooking pot with flaring rim and a handle, in calcined black earth (Pt. 40), vase with strainer spout and vertical band of pairs of triangles opposed at the apex, in red paint, vase with short tubular spout decorated with a brown radiating motif, sherd with red geometric decoration, sherd with red concentric circles, sherd in orange paste with slip
Figure: small pencilled marking at bottom left, illegible; labels: illegible
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