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

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Layer 5: Rare sherds RB_II-RB_III_first_phase: 2 Mycenaean sherds with lustrous black decoration, with fragments of decorative compositions.

Layers 4: Pottery not very abundant RB III_second_phase: krater with final Mycenaean or "close style" decoration; 2 rim of large bowl with brown decoration of the same style; bowls "base ring ware"; bowls with flaring rim and decorated on the inside with a double line painted in red; carinated bowls.

Layer 3: Pottery fairly abundant Iron I initial and middle phases: late bowls "base ring ware"; sherds "bucchero"; fine bowls with flaring rim; 2 jugs with decoration of parallel lines in red or brown; pithos with spout near the rim; bronze awl and spatula (Pt 8) at 45 cm in the N.-W. corner bronze rod (Pt 9) at 65 cm in the S.E. corner; limestone weight; marble mace-heads; 2 steatite spindle whorls.

Layers 2 and 1: Pottery rare and mixed, with a strong proportion of the final phase of Iron I.

Conclusions -

Almost the whole history of Enkomi seems to be summarised in this sounding, where there succeed one another a layer of the end of the Middle Bronze, a floor of the Mycenaean period, a layer of the end of the Late Bronze, a layer of the beginning of Iron I and finally a floor with domestic installations and use layer of the end of Iron I, containing some traces of the later periods.

Stratigraphy -

To the North, 250 cm: virgin clay floor. Layer 6: 250-180 cm: greenish clay earth. Layer 5: 180-130 cm: alternating beds of red and green clay earth. Layer 4: 130-70 cm: reddish earth with white particles.