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

Layers 2 and 1: Abundant pottery, Iron I intermediate and final: carinated bowl, degenerate "base ring ware"; large bowls "wavy lines" with black decoration; cylindrical bowl with concave base and horizontal bichrome decoration red and black; degenerate "bucchero"; large hemispherical pithos (Pt 31); rim of pithos with incised sign, found inside the preceding one; pestle and stone weight.

Conclusions - The complex history traced by Sounding XLIII is summarised as follows: Level D: Layer 12: floors of the end of the Middle Bronze and the beginning of the Late Bronze. Level C: Layers 11 to 8: Mycenaean period: a floor of Late Bronze II linked to an architectural phase, with an oven, - a floor of the beginning of Late Bronze III. Level B: Layers 7 to 4: Transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age: a floor of the second phase of Late Bronze III, associated with a new architecture and a new oven, - a floor quite definitely of the beginning of Iron I. Level A: Layers 3 to 1: Iron Age I, with architecture, hearths and industrial installation. One therefore finds there a true shortcut of the history of Enkomi.

Stratigraphy - 190 cm: virgin soil, in places the rock, elsewhere clay and stones filling hollows in it. Layer 8: 190-180 cm: floor of burnt red brick earth. Layer 7: 189-150 cm: greenish earth with beds of ash. Layer 6: 150-120 cm: compact brown earth. Layer 5: 120-90 cm: floors of black ash and burnt red brick earth Layer 4: 90-65 cm: reddish brown earth. Layer 3: 65-60 cm: floor of hard grey earth, with lime and ash.