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

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b/ Pottery LB I: bowls "base ring ware" very fine or thick; "milk bowl".

Layer 5: Pottery LB II-LB III first phase: Mycenaean sherds with red burnished decoration, one with micaceous fabric associated fine pottery; rim of bowl "milk bowl"; cylindrical spindle whorl in fine pottery.

Layer 4: Pottery LB III second phase: sherd with brown spiral decoration "close style"; bowls with flaring rim and "close style" decoration in black or brown; carinated bowls with double line in brown paint; "bucchero"; gourd spout.

Layer 3: Pottery Iron I initial phase: large bowls with flaring rim and decoration of red parallel lines [handwritten: 5] large bowl with rim, with red fine chevrons on the rim "bucchero"; 2 common jugs (Pt 38); limestone polisher.

Layer 2: Pottery Iron I intermediate and final: evolved "wavy lines" bowls; degenerate "bucchero"; degenerate or late "base ring ware".

Layer 1: Mixed surface pottery: worn Mycenaean sherds; fragment of quadruped figurine.

Conclusions - This trench comprises a layer where sherds of the end of the Middle Bronze and the beginning of the Late Bronze are mixed, a Mycenaean layer, a floor and a layer of the end of the Late Bronze, a floor and a thick layer of the beginning of the Iron Age and a layer of the end of Iron I; the quarter seems to have been inhabited without interruption.

Stratigraphy - Beyond 60 cm, over almost the whole surface, crossroads: grey cement with stones and small sherds. Layer 3: at the corners, cavities filled with brown earth. Layer 2: 60-20 cm: reddish earth.