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Layer 2: 70-60 cm: floor of compacted earth. Layer 1: 60-0 cm: brown earth with, at 10 or 20 cm, the top of the walls
(3) Elsewhere, the excavation was stopped at the top of layer 2.
Material - Layer 6: Isolated sherds MB III or LB I on the rock: spout of a jug with brown glaze; handle of a bowl with red glaze.
Layers 5 and 4: Rare pottery of the Iron I intermediate phase: (1) Pt 30: steatite seal; fragment of a bone stylus. (2) Pt 42: large "wavy lines" bowl with a very flaring rim; cup with bright red decoration: on the outside, a sinuous band and horizontal bands,- on the inside, double band at the rim, spiral at the base; narrow foot; jars of "Canaanite" type with high shoulder and ogival base; jar handle with incised +; bronze shank; fragment of an iron tool.
Layer 3 (c): Very abundant pottery of the Iron I intermediate phase: bowls with primitive "wavy lines" decoration, very fine; hemispherical cups with garland decoration; "bucchero" sherds of good workmanship; fragment of a ladle; fragment of a late stirrup vase; jars of "Canaanite" type, several of them with handles with incised signs and one handle with seal impression; in bronze: plaque with engraved signs; arrowhead; three buttons; engraved ivory rod; spindle whorl in terracotta; fragment of a stone dish.
Layer 3 (b); very little pottery.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain