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and tools of all kinds of different materials. found a very varied assemblage, with varied pottery forms of identical vessels, with blotches and firing faults; one square room, provided with a door in the S.W. corner; instead of a kiln works: where a tomb structure was expected, we cleared a Pt 25 a potter's kiln. This hypothesis was refuted by the subsequent During the excavation, it had first been considered to see in the just mentioned remained in use until the abandonment of the town. of the stone walls of layer 3 are reused; the floor of which are recent; this floor is at a depth of 60 cm; the upper parts at 50 cm; at Pt 25, however, owing to the settling of the debris Around 1100 B.C., a floor is laid over the whole surface of the sounding high walls, and crushing of the pottery "in situ". burning by fire, collapse of the bricks belonging to the parts large architectural complex and installation of a considerable assemblage A little later, but still in the same phase, construction of a Floor and use layer of the middle of Iron I, with pottery (0.4). Traces of an occupation of Middle Bronze III or Late Bronze I in a hollow of the virgin soil.
Conclusions –
bone stopper (Pt 38); stone weight and spindle whorl. stone seal (Pt 37); bronze point and steatite spindle whorl (Pt 36); jug with cylindrical spout and vertical decoration (Pt 35); jar handle with incised +; handle with double ridge or figure-of-8 section; bola "wavy lines" of the standard or evolved type;
Layer 1: Abundant pottery of the Iron I final phase:
Layer 2: no pottery.
handle in sun-dried earth in the N.W. corner. spindle whorl and spindle whorl in stone; basalt bowl; in the S.E. corner; jars of "Canaanite" type; small "wavy lines" bowl with black decoration;
Layer 3 (c): Very abundant pottery of the Iron I intermediate phase:
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain