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

Stratigraphy –

Layer 2: 70-50 cm: traces of floor; in places, greenish earth or ashes. Layer 1: 50-0 cm: brown earth.

Material –

Pottery not abundant Per I final phase: bowls "wavy lines" standard type; sherds "bucchero".

Stratigraphy –

Layer 3: 100 cm: traces of floor. Layer 2: 100-60 cm: in the centre of the trench, junction of the two E-W roads; to the North, straight E-W wall; to the South, wall oblique to the E., then taking the E-W direction. On either side of the road, and in the halls beyond the walls, grey earth. Layer 1: 60-0 cm: brown earth.

Material –

Layers 3 and 2: Per I intermediate pottery: jug with small cylindrical spout and vertical matron decoration at 90 cm (Pl 39); "bucchero" of good workmanship.

Layer 1: Pottery fairly abundant Per I final: bowls "wavy lines" standard; "bucchero" degenerate; fragment of bovid figurine in terracotta; five sling bullets in terracotta; cup in steatite; spindle whorl in steatite; stone loom weight; engraved bone.

Conclusions –

In this sounding, as in the previous one, the excavation only reached the end of Per I; however the last sounding provided valuable topographic indications and xxxxxx a brilliant confirmation of the predictions obtained thanks to the measurements of magnetic anomalies.

Ornamental rule