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

Layer 2: 60-30 cm: reddish brown earth with white specks; to the South, top of the oblique East-West road. Layer 1: 30-0 cm: brown earth.

Material - Layers 8 to 6: Pottery rare and not very characteristic, probably of the beginning of Iron I; at the ivory spindle whorl (Pt 34) on the floor at 180 cm.

Layers 5 and 4: Pottery fairly abundant, Iron I initial phase: sherds of greenish pottery with brown or red decoration; sherds of white pottery with red decoration.

Layer 3: Sherds rare, Iron I intermediate phase: large bowls "wavy lines" of early type; cup with flattened rim and external horizontal grooves.

Layers 2 and 1: Sherds rare, not very characteristic and mixed, without doubt in part Iron I final phase.

Conclusions - The whole history of this sounding appears to fall within the Iron Age I.

Stratigraphy - 260 cm: virgin soil, rock. Layer 7: 260-200 cm: greenish clayey earth. Layer 6: 200-140 cm: grey clayey earth. Layer 5: 140-130 cm: ashes and charcoal. Layer 4: 130-110 cm: floor of brown burnt earth. Layer 3: 110-75 cm: grey ashy earth. Layer 2: 75-40 cm: grey earth mixed with brick-red earth; in the centre, superimposition of juxtaposed walls. Layer 1: 40-0 cm: brown earth.

Material - Layer 7: Pottery fairly abundant, MB III-LB I: sherds with brown decoration of wavy lines framed by lines horizontal, including a spout of a large jug; "red on red"; "milk bowl"; "base ring ware"; cup with ring rim in cream lustrous pottery;