Document 34 CDF art. 154, Report on the excavations at Enkomi, 1955–1958, p. 7 (1955–1958)

Page 7Scan 13 of 104

Handwritten: 94

One notes there a first floor of lime at 0.60, beneath a layer of ashes (Pt. 4), with a broken stone trough at 0,50m(Pt.3) on this floor there was a fragment of lamp stand and a handle with rectangular profile and black decoration on white slip.

Next comes a layer of small grey pebbles and burnt earth ochre, between 0,70 and 1,00 m.; with pottery of the beginning of Iron I: "dark on white slip", late "milk bowl", krater with flat rim et orné de spirales ("Myc. III C 1"), du début du XII9 s.

Lower down, between 1 m. and 1,50m, one meets [handwritten: besides] tuyères and an engraved bone plaque (Pt. 30 1.55), mixed material: Late Bronze III: "milk bowl", hard hand-made pottery, Mycenaean krater with red decoration; Late Bronze I: painted sherd brown with geometric motif, very elongated handle at the rim of a cup, bichrome sherd with cream base of "Union Jack" type; Bronze Middle III: ladle handle of greenish pottery with black bands, "red on black", "red on red", bichrome sherd, lustrous lamp, pottery painted with parallel bands brown-red, or black on greenish ground with wavy bands.

B) Private houses in the southern part. Closer to the East-West road, one meets in the part eastern of the area, south of a long East-West wall, which separates them from the workshops, private houses, of which a small portion has been cleared.

1) Room at the 1 north-east corner of the area. North of Pt. 63, there is a small hall shaped like a squarebased plan, with a door to the East. Two floors are recognised there;

On the upper floor, at 0,60m, jars for storage were piled up with ogival base, marked shoulder with two handles at the shoulder (Pt. 71); there were also found a "base ring" jug late (Pt. 72) and a small stone dish.

On the lower floor, at 1 m. depth, there were two unperforated stone discs, an arrowhead with tang and a long shaft ending in a swollen pointed head, of bronze.

65 figures hard to read~~struck~~ struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain