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taken from the cemented area, pithos placed on the edge and lacking its base; in the centre, a large cistern descending down to the rock at 310 cm depth and filled with stones and loose earth (Pl. 32). Layer 1: 60-0 cm: reddish brown earth with white particles.
Material -
Layer 12: Sherds MB III and LB I: "red on black", including a jug rim with spout; "red on red"; early "base ring ware"; "milk bowl"; stone grinder; fragment of bronze.
Layers 10 and 11: LB II sherds: Mycenaean sherds with lustrous painted decoration; white ware trimmed with a knife; fine "base ring ware"; developed "milk bowl".
Layers 9 and 8: LB III first phase sherds: Mycenaean sherds, some of local manufacture.
Layers 7 and 6: LB III second phase sherds: sherds with final Mycenaean or "close style" decoration; bowls with flaring rim, often carinated, with double line in red on the inside of the rim; in white ware.
Layers 5 and 4: Ter I initial phase pottery: character in greenish ware with careless brown decoration; carinated bowl with horizontal parallel red decoration; fragment of rhyton; small basket handle with black dot decoration; bowls with flaring rim and an inner red band.
Layer 3: Ter I initial phase pottery: strainer spout with brown decoration; felted "bucchero"; bowl with flattened rim and horizontal grooves on the outside of the rim.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain