Report on the soundings carried out in September–October 1958 at EnkomiH. de Contenson

Layer 5: Rare sherds LB II–LB III first phase: Mycenaean sherds with lustrous black decoration with fragments of decorative compositions.

Layers 4: Pottery not very abundant LB III second phase: krater with final Mycenaean or "close style" decoration; rim of large bowl with brown decoration of the same style; "base ring ware" bowls; bowls with flaring rim and decorated on the inside with a double line painted in red; carinated bowls.

Layer 3: Pottery fairly abundant Iron I initial and middle phases: late "base ring ware" bowls; "bucchero" sherds; fine bowls with flaring rim; jugs with decoration of parallel lines in red or brown; pithos with spout near the rim; bronze awl and spatula (Pt 8) at 45 cm in the N.-W. corner; bronze rod (Pt 9) at 65 cm in the S.E. corner; limestone weight; marble mace-heads; 2 steatite spindle whorls.

Layers 2 and 1: Pottery rare and mixed, with a strong proportion of the final phase of Iron I.

Conclusions - Almost the whole history of Enkomi seems to be summed up in this sounding, where there follow one another a layer of the end of the Middle Bronze, a floor of the Mycenaean period, a layer of the end of the Late Bronze, a layer of the beginning of Iron I and finally a floor with domestic installations and use layer of the end of Iron I, containing some traces of the later periods.

Stratigraphy - To the North, 250 cm: virgin clay floor. Layer 6: 250-180 cm: greenish clayey earth. Layer 5: 180-130 cm: alternating beds of red and green clayey earth. Layer 4: 130-70 cm: reddish earth with white particles.