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SOUNDING XLII -
Stratigraphy -
To the East of the road:
Layer 7: 320-240 cm: greenish earth filling a cavity dug into the virgin rock floor. Layer 6: 240-200 cm: burnt earth and stones, resting on the virgin soil except above the cavity mentioned above. Layer 5: 200-190 cm: series of floors in white material and burnt earth alternating with brick-red. Layer 4: 190-150 cm: hearths of grey ash with charcoal and numerous horizontal sherds. Layer 3: 150-110 cm: to the East; te[handwritten: brace] fine greenish earth 210-110 cm: to the West, from the rock: Layer 2: 110-60 cm: in the centre, true North-South, bordered by walls; on either side, red earth with particles white, with in places beds of earth greenish. Layer 1: 60-0 cm: grey earth.
Material -
Layer 7: no pottery.
Layers 5 and 6: Isolated sherds LB I-II in the floors: "milk bowl"; bichrome sherds red and black; Mycenaean sherds with bright red paint.
Layer 5 bis: Isolated sherds LB I-II on the rock to the West of the street: "milk bowl"; "base ring ware"; sherds with black slip, burnished.
Layers 4 and 3: Very abundant pottery, early and intermediate Per I: jar with white slip and dark red decoration of wavy lines; cups with black decoration; cup with thick rim, decorated with red chevrons [handwritten: circle around "en peinte"]; grey sherds with impressed decoration; carinated cups; "bucchero" fairly fine and coarse or late; very flared bowls, "wavy lines" primitive style; miniature layer; spindle whorl in steatite; loom weight and counterweight in stone.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain