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

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Layers 6 and 5: _Abundant sherds MB_III_or RB_I:_ fragments of jars with red and black bichrome decoration; "red on black"; "red on red"; fine bowls "base ring ware"; pottery with black, brown or red slip. Layer 4: Sherds not abundant, worn, damaged by fire _RB_II-RB_III first phase_; use of the floor: Mycenaean sherds with dark brown decoration; one "red on black" sherd; one "milk bowl" sherd. Layer 3: Abundant pottery, Iron I initial phase: krater in green pottery with black decoration of careless workmanship, derived from the "close style"; carinated cups in fairly fine pottery, black painted decoration; ring bases and conical bases. Layer 2: _Pottery fairly rare_Iron_I_intermediate_and final_: varied bowls "wavy lines"; handle with double ridge or figure-of-8 section; loom weights in terracotta. Layer 1: Pottery rare and mixed.

Conclusions - South of the road, remains of the end of the Middle Bronze have subsisted in a cavity of the rock; above this one meets a floor and a use layer of the beginning of the Late Bronze, then a floor of the period Mycenaean. This is covered by a layer of the beginning of Iron I, comprising north of the road a floor which is not represented to the South. Finally, installations of the middle and end of Iron I continue without defined floors up to the surface.

Stratigraphy - Layer 4: 320-166 cm: in the N.-W. corner, shaft descending to the rock and filled with greenish fine earth. Layer 3: 160-100 cm: to the North reddish earth in the centre white floor sloping slightly towards the North; to the South ashy earth.