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

The upper floor or Floor I lies at a depth that varies from 0,50 in the North to 0,65m in the South. Above this hard white floor, one meets sherds of the Early Iron and a few objects: biconical bead of black stone with eight incised pointed circles, four on each side, at 0,10m; pyramidal loom weight of fired clay, at 0,30m; cylinder of black stone and head of a crude clay figurine, at 0.40; arrowhead bent of bronze, at 0,50m (Pt. 53); inscribed clay ball with 3 signs, at 0,65m (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, presents groups of cupules.

Below this floor, one finds in a soft brown or black earth [handwritten: (]hollow numerous sherds of Late Bronze III-II: pottery knife-cut, including carinated bowls with "wish-bone handle", "milk bowl" monochrome and bichrome, and a bent pin of bronze, at 1,20m (Pt. 41). The lower white floor or Floor II is met between 1,00 and 1,25m in the South, below Pt. 58; it is cut by channels leading to the stone kerb of a well; from this well, one removed a bowl with small foot and concentric circles black on the inside, and a basalt grinding stone.

At a depth of 1,40m, one finds a compact greenish earth with sherds of Final Middle Bronze: "red on black", lustrous red bowls with flaring rim, thin "base ring" with flaring rim and chevrons in relief, down to the virgin soil which appears at 1,50m.

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

After a gap caused by the trench of 1949, one sees a room of which only the North-East corner has not been excavated; it is bounded on the East by a wall running 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 goes beyond 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.