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… near the cemented aird, pithos set on the edge and lacking its base; in the centre, large cistern descending to the rock at 310 cm depth and filled with stones and loose earth (Pt 32). Layer 1: 60-0 cm: reddish brown earth with white particles.
Material – Layer 12: Sherds MB III and RB I: "red on black", including a jug rim with spout; "red on red"; early "base ring ware"; "milk bowl"; stone grinder; fragment of bronze.
Layers 10 and 11: Sherds RB II: Mycenaean sherds with lustrous painted decoration; white pottery trimmed with a knife; fine "base ring ware"; developed "milk bowl".
Layers 9 and 8: Sherds RB III first phase: Mycenaean sherds, some of local manufacture.
Layers 7 and 6: Sherds RB III second phase: sherds with final Mycenaean or "close style" decoration; bowls with flaring rim, often carinated, with double line in red on the inside of the rim; in white pottery.
Layers 5 and 4: Pottery Iron I initial phase: krater in greenish pottery with careless brown decoration; carinated bowl with horizontal parallel red decoration; fragment of rhyton; small basket handle with black painted decoration; bowls with flaring rim with an inner red band.
Layer 3: Pottery Iron I initial phase: strainer spout with brown decoration; late "bucchero"; bowl with flattened rim with horizontal grooves on the outside of the rim.
Handwritten: 47
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain