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

Handwritten: 90

[handwritten: ←] C/ The hall immediately to the East of the main street.

The hall which occupies the South-East corner of the crossroads measures about 5 m. East-West by 3 m. North-South; it had two successive floors, one at 0,50m, the other at 0,80m.

Above the upper floor, down to 0,50m, one meets Iron I pottery: "bucchero", jar base with grooves, bowl base with concentric red circles, double-stemmed handle ending in a ring form, as well as a wheel (Pt. 20) and a quadruped (Pt. 21) coming from a miniature terracotta chariot.

On the second floor, at 0,80m, it seems one is at the beginning of Iron I: horizontal handles, cup with horizontal lug and band of light paint on reddish dark slip, lamp with strongly pinched spout, fragment of chalice foot with [illegible] parallel red lines.

Handwritten: bandes

Below this floor, the material is fairly mixed down to 1,50m: end of Iron I: bowls in "wavy line" style ("Myc. III C 2"); beginning of Iron I: carinated bowls with red decoration on cream ground ("Myc. III C 1"); Late Bronze II-III: Cypro-Mycenaean kraters, "spindle bottle", incised handles of "base ring" type, bowls with re-cut wall, "milk bowl".

At 1,50 m. depth, immediately above the virgin soil, the pottery of the end of the Middle Bronze becomes abundant (Pt. 54): "red on black" sherds, jugs with concentric black bands on the neck, black decoration of wavy band between horizontal bands, handles of rectangular profile in green paste with black paint.

III°. To the North of the second East-West street.

[handwritten: ←] A/ Industrial zone in the northern part.

Immediately to the South of the 1949 area, there is a region characterised by narrow corridors, generally containing much ash and terracotta tuyères, coming no doubt from kilns. The presence of numerous slag indicates that these installations served for a craft-type metallurgy, analogous to that practised at Ugarit.