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

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Stratigraphy -

Layer 2: beyond 50 cm, reddish earth, except in the centre where there is a looted tomb. Mixed pottery. Layer 1 bis: 50-30 cm: numerous stones, in places; in the middle of these, small inverted jug (Pt.16) of common Iron I pottery. Layer 1: 30-0 cm: grey earth. Pottery rare and mixed.

Conclusions - Remains of a Late Bronze tomb and of a house of Iron I.

Stratigraphy -

Layer 7: 180-150 cm: N.-S. channel ending in a sump and filled with greenish clayey earth; paving at the base. Layer 8 bis: 150 cm: white floor resting on the virgin rock floor. Layer 6: 150-112 cm: grey ashes., only north of a wall North of a very massive E.-W. wall: Layer 5: 112-90 cm: burnt brown-red earth. Layer 4: 90-75 cm: floors of white material and burnt earth. Layer 3: 75-70 cm: burnt red earth. Layer 2: 70-20 cm north of the wall, 112-20 cm south of the wall: brown earth. Layer 1: greyish earth.

Finds -

Layer 7: _Sherds LB_III_first phase isolated on the rock_: rare Mycenaean sherds in the first floor.

Layer 6: _Abundant pottery RB_III_second_phase_: krater with decoration in dark red-brown of spirals, chevrons, sawtooth and chequers "close style"; jar with decoration of parallel wavy or red lines; strainer-spout with white slip and dark red decoration; animal figurine with white slip and red decoration. carinated bowls and bowls with flaring rim, with decoration of double lines in red paint on the interior; loom weight of terracotta.