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… to the South, ashy earth; small hearths compartmented by low walls, probably workshops; in the S.W. corner, plastered hole visible in section, base at 160 cm and top at 60 cm; wall along the E. side of the sounding. Layer 2: 100-60 cm: reddish earth; to the North, at 90 cm, hearth in brick-red earth (Pt 22). Layer 1: 60-0 cm: brown earth.
Material - Layer 4 (a): Isolated KB III sherds on the rock: fragment of bowl rim "milk bowl"; cup rim in fine pottery with brown decoration.
Layers 4 (b) to 1: Homogeneous Iron I pottery: "bucchero" of good workmanship; painted sherd with chevrons of careless workmanship; jugs with horizontal parallel decoration; "wavy lines" bowls of large and medium size; 2 steatite spindle whorls and one in ivory.
Conclusions - Industrial installations of the beginning of the Iron Age.
SOUNDING XL -
Stratigraphy - To the South: Layer 7: 240-210 cm: brown earth in cavity cut into the rock. Layer 6: 210-200 cm: white floor. Layer 5: 200-180 cm: brown earth. Layer 4: 180-170 cm: white floor. Layer 3: 170-120 cm: throughout the trench, brown earth; in the S.E. corner, at 160 cm, rim of a pithos whose base rests on the rock (Pt 29). Layer 2 bis: to the South, 225-120 cm: ashes. Layer 2: 120-70 cm: brown earth; to the South, tops of walls in fine masonry. —
Stamp: 40 / 20
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain