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

Layer 1 bis at 1: Pottery Per I final phase: bowls "wavy lines" evolved type of medium size.

Conclusions -

Sounding XII was continuously inhabited until the decline of Enkomi. Remains in a cavity of the rock of an occupation of the end of the Middle Bronze or of the beginning of the Late Bronze. Construction of a fine monument with rusticated wall and two floors successive during the Mycenaean period. Reuse of this building during the Iron I period, with a layer from the beginning of this period, then a floor and a use layer from the middle of the period. A floor and new installations mark the last stage which precedes the abandonment of the town.

Stratigraphy -

(1) Pt 30: square hall in the centre of the sounding; beyond 190 cm, in the middle, well in which was at 195 cm a stone seal (Pt 30): 190 cm: virgin floor, rock. Layer 4: 190-150 cm: ash. Layer 3: 150-70 cm: reddish earth. Layer 2: 70-50 cm: white floor. Layer 1: 50-0 cm: brown earth.

(2) Pt 25: square room to the South of the preceding; parallel stratigraphy, but more complex. 270 cm: virgin floor, rock. Layer 6: 270-205 cm: to the North fine greenish earth, to the South stones. Layer 5: 205-190 cm: white floor. Layer 4 (b): 190-165 cm: fine ashy earth with pottery (Pt 42). Layer 4 (a): 165-150 cm: brown earth going down to the base of the walls. Layer 3 (c): 150-130 cm: pottery crushed in situ, animal bones and varied tools. Layer 3 (b): 130-100 cm: burnt earth. Layer 3 (a): 100-70 cm: ashes, pottery, surrounded by burnt bricks and fallen stones; stone floor, trough.