Draft summary report on the 21st season of excavations at Enkomi, March–April 1971Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

italic4. 3. Summary report on the results of excavations in the 4 East quarter of Enkomi

(March-April 1971)

by

Jacques-Claude Courtois

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The stratigraphic investigations concerned an area rectangular , already partly cleared during the XIX^th campaign of excavations in 1967 (1), of the 4 East quarter of the town of the Age of Bronze. This area measured 33 metres NS by 14 metres E-W, and lay immediately east and upslope of the large houses with three fine built tombs called Syrian type . Collaborated in this research Martine Tillenoli, James Robinson and Paul Garczynski. The systematic dismantling of the late walls attributed to Cypriote Iron I in the course of the 1967 campaign, as well as the study of the various "witnesses" then preserved, led to important discoveries architectural, while revealing the extreme complexity , the interlocking of the various superimposed phases of occupation, the numerous rebuildings of walls , the reuse of elements from one period to the next . The precise dating of several remains of architecture the end of the Middle Bronze and Late Bronze could be obtained thanks to the relative abundance of strata and of floors provided with characteristic pottery fragments .

[?fsThe richness of the Late Bronze 1 layers was certainly one of the surprises of this stratigraphic study, notably in the squares E 5, E6, F 5, F 6, GH 6, N 1 , O 1 . to cite only the main cases encountered . Laid out in the concave parts of the surface primitive rock, the walls, in small and medium irregular ] of this period are preserved for about thirty centimetres in average height . In F 5, one of these walls , clearly rebuilt of Middle Cypriot III, still has a height (exceptional- ly) of 0, 95 m. In N O 1, we had the good fortune to recognise a superposition of three strata of Late Bronze 1 and of Middle Bronze III final, totalling together 1 , m 20 in thickness above the rock . These observations were recorded graphically on stratigraphic sections drawn up as the

(1) C.F.A. Schaeffer and J.-C. Courtois, Excavations at Enkomi-Alasia, 1967, in Syria, XLV, p. 264-269; BCH, 93, 1969, p. 514-515; CRAI, 1968, p. 604, 611.