Report on the excavations at Enkomi, 1955–1958Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

façade, a door of more than 3 m. wide opens, preceded by two orthostats perpendicular to the wall. A cup-hollow at the foot of the South orthostat may have served as a pivot socket.

The stratigraphy of the vestibule is very different depending on whether one is in the South or the North. In the southern half, one distinguishes the following layers: 1. Surface layer, with mixed material, including glass Byzantine, Iron Age I pottery; its thickness increases from 25 to 75 cm from South to North. 2. Bed of sterile limestone, descending to a depth of 1 m. except at the South end, where there is a pocket of brown earth, with Late Bronze III pottery, between 0,75 and 1,00 m - and along the East wall, where the limestone is replaced by sterile blackish silt, which seems to have been deposited by stagnant water. 3. White floor, changing in places into a bed of sterile red clay, at the level of the threshold of the cella. 1,00 to 1,05 m. 4. Ashes with Late Bronze III sherds and a rectangular bone plaque. 1,05 to 1,10 m. 5. Very hard white floor, on which the excavation was stopped in this sector. 1,10 to 1,20 m.

In the northern half, the succession of strata is as follows: 1. Surface earth, with mixed material. 0 to 0,15 m. 2. White floor (Floor I): initial Iron Age. 0,15 to 0,20 m. 3. Brown earth, with polished green stone axe (Pt. 65). 0,20 to 0,50 m. 4. Ashes, with Final Late Bronze pottery and several objects: bovid horn (Pt. 9), carved ivory fragment representing a wing and a tail of a sphinx (Pt. 11), large pithos crushed in situ. 0,50 to 0,70 m. 5. Compact greenish earth, continuing the silt noted in the southern half, and containing a bronze ring and a bronze earring. 0,70 to 1,00 m. 6. Series of successive floors (Floor II), corresponding to the upper floor noted in the South: a/ very hard white layer; b/ layer very hard yellow. 1,00 to 1,05 m.