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b/ Pottery RB_I: bowls "base ring ware" very fine or equal; "milk bowl". Layer 5: Pottery RB II-RB III first phase: Mycenaean sherds with red burnished decoration, one with micaceous fabric; associated fine pottery; rim of bowl "milk bowl"; cylindrical spindle whorl in fine pottery. Layer 4: Pottery RB III second phase: sherd with brown spiral decoration "close style"; bowls with flaring rim and "close style" decoration in black or brown; carinated bowls with double line in brown paint; "buccahero"; gourd spout. Layer 3: Pottery Iron I initial phase: large bowls with flaring rim and decoration of red parallel lines; large bowl with rim, with red chevrons VII on the rim; "buccahero"; 2 common jugs (pt 78); limestone polisher. Layer 2: Pottery Iron I intermediate and final: evolved "wavy lines" bowls; degenerate "buccahero"; degenerate or late "base ring ware". Layer 1: Mixed surface pottery: worn Mycenaean sherds; fragment of quadruped figurine.
Conclusions - This trench comprises a layer in which sherds of the end of the Middle Bronze and the beginning of the Late Bronze mingle, a Mycenaean layer, a floor and a thick layer of the beginning of the Iron Age, and a layer of the end of Iron I: the quarter seems to have been inhabited without interruption.
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Stratigraphy -
Beyond 60 cm, over almost the whole surface, road-paving: grey cement with stones and small sherds. Layer 3: at the corners, cavities filled with brown earth. Layer 2: 60-20 cm: reddish earth. Layer 1: 20-0 cm: grey earth.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain
