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original, with a sort of rounded apse to the North; the walls supports are slightly inclined. The channel leading to this sump could not be cleared, because of the importance of the stratigraphic balk- E-W, revealed beneath a rubble wall with a trough reused on edge (Iron I). The upper part of this balk yielded sherds of a Mycenaean III C 1 bowl in degenerate style , numerous pebbles of blue stone and a cylinder bead of black stone. It was on the floor of Late Bronze 3 of the neighbouring room to the north that a bronze arrowhead with tang and a sling bullet, also of bronze, associated with a lamp of terracotta incomplete and various pottery fragments. characteristic
At the north end of the area, in a balk preserved against the southern edge wall of street no. 3, was found a inscribed ball of greyish terracotta with three engraved signs impressed before firing; this ball lay on the floor of Iron I,
Among the abundant collection of painted pottery sherds of Cypriot Middle III and Late Bronze 1, it is worth noting a bowl rim fragment that appears imported and would be attributable Late Minoan I B (1). End Jacques-Claude Courtois.
(1) Preliminary reports concerning sector 4 East: cf. CFA Syria XLV, 1968 pp. 266-270; BCH, 93, 1969, pp. 514-515; CRAI, 20/12/1968, pp. 604-611.
(1) The photographs reproduced fig. 7 to 9 13 were taken by J.-C. Courtois.
The vessel was found in a gap in the wall of L.B. I (Courtois) (v. p. 2)
[With the collaboration: of Jamy Robinson Paul Varsingzki Martine Sillandi]
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain