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

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Layers 2 and 1: mixed pottery, partly Iron I final phase.

Conclusions - The traces of an installation of the beginning of the Late Bronze succeed a important level of the Early Iron Age.

Stratigraphy - 310 to 280 cm: virgin floor, rock. To the North: Layer 12: 310-230 cm: earth mixed with charcoal, gravel and elements of limestone, probably floors. Layer 11: 230-225 cm: white floor linked to the lower architectural level; kiln with very burnt walls (Pt 40), of oval form, present top at 175 cm. Layer 10: 225-200 cm: greenish clayey earth. Layer 9: 200-195 cm: floor of burnt brick-red earth and charcoal. Layer 8: 195-175 cm: greenish clayey earth with abundant charcoal. Layer 7: 175-170 cm: white floor, with bed of stones and second level architectural; at Pt 40, new bread oven, vaulted and provided with openings for the smoke; of oval form, top at 90 cm, h. 80 cm, l. 75 cm, depth 70 cm. Layer 6: 170-115 cm: fine greenish earth. Layer 5: 115-110 cm: slightly marked floor, respecting the upper part of the kiln (Pt 40), which must however have been unusable; charcoal and sherds. Layer 4: 110-90 cm: greyish earth, burnt in places. Layer 3: 90-70 cm: series of floors in grey, ashy earth, with abundant horizontal sherds, charcoal, bones linked to a third architectural level; hearth of baked earth, rectangular in form, oriented North-South, to the North of Pt 40. Layer 2: 70-60 cm: floor, represented to the North by a hearth of baked earth red, similar to the previous one, but to the West;- to the South by a cemented area sloping towards the North and with raised edges (Pt 31);