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

Stratigraphy - South part: 90 cm: virgin floor, clay. Layer 2: 90-60 cm: grey ash and burnt earth. Over the whole surface: Layer 1: 60-0 cm: brown earth.

Material - Layer 2: a/ Isolated MB_III sherds in contact with the virgin floor: bowl "red on black", worn; handle with rectangular profile and red painted stripes. b/ Rare pottery_LB III second phase: krater with matt painted decoration of spirals and chevrons, Late Mycenaean or "close style"; flaring bowls in fine white or pale pottery with decoration matt painted horizontal parallel lines; ring bases in fine white pottery.

Layer 1: a/ Abundant pottery of Early and Middle Iron I: bowl with straight rim, flat base, horizontal painted decoration; carinated cups with horizontal painted decoration; bowl with flaring rim and broad red wavy band on the exterior. b/ Abundant pottery of Late Iron I on the surface: bowls with evolved "wavy lines" decoration ("granary style").

Conclusions - A few isolated sherds are the trace of a first occupation at the end of the Middle Bronze. There follows a thick layer of Late Mycenaean, with hearths or a burnt layer, then an installation of the beginning of the Iron Age, which develops peacefully until the abandonment of the town in the 11th c. B.C.

Stratigraphy - Layer 2: tomb looted in the S.E. corner; elsewhere virgin clay at 30cm Layer 1 bis: 30-10 cm: stone raft. Layer 1: 10-0 cm: greyish earth.