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… sherds with thick reddish slip; bone awl (Pt 33) at 250 cm; basalt grinder.
Layers 6 and 5: Abundant pottery RB_II-RB_III: Mycenaean sherds with lustrous decoration; carinated cups and ring bases in fine pottery.
Layers 4 and 3: Pottery fairly rare_Iron I_initial_et intermédiaire: flaring bowl with spiral decoration in black paint, derived from the "close style"; cups with flattened rim, horizontal lug and external grooves below the rim;
Layers 2 and 1: Pottery rare and difficult to date, perhaps Iron I final phase: degenerate "buccheró"; sherds with incised decoration and thumb-rest handles.
Conclusions - Four levels can be distinguished, attributable to the following periods: transition from Middle Bronze to Late Bronze, - Mycenaean, - beginning of Iron I, - and perhaps end of Iron I.
SOUNDING XLVI -
Stratigraphy - 210 cm to the North, 190 cm at the centre: virgin floor, clay. Layer 7: 210-190 cm: clayey earth. Layer 6: 190 -180 cm: white floor. Layer 5: 180-140 cm: greenish fine earth; walls of an early architectural phase. Layer 150 cm: to the North, Pt 28: legs of a skeleton. Layer 4: 150-140 cm at the centre; 140-130 cm to the North: } greenish white floor. Layer 3: 130-90 cm: reddish earth. Layer 2: 90-70 cm: compact ashy earth; upper architectural phase. Layer 1: 70-0 cm: brown earth.
Stamp: 50
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain