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

< Pl. XIX, 4/(fig. 4)< Pl. XIX, 5/(fig. 5)< Pl. XIX, 6/(fig. 6)fixed installations were cleared, in particular, in the trench old, a large semi-circular hearth or kiln 1 m wide with a thick border of about a dozen centimetres/. Nevertheless no installation for working copper ore has here been found despite the numerous slag found at all the levels. The pottery, fragmentary or in the form of vases complete, most often undecorated, is abundant and belongfor the most part to the 12th c. Note also the find of several bronze objects: a point of arrow, a point spearhead well preserved/, finally an object in shape of a hook for which there is a parallel in the hoard of bronzes found at Enkomi in 1947 (1). The 12th c. levels go down, it seems, down to the rock in most of the soundings made in depth except the south-east sector where the situation appears a little different. It was located at this spot, beneath the late floors, a building whose importance is shown by the masonry of its walls: these are made of two rows of squared blocks set on edge with an infillintermediate of small stones; these walls, of which only the foundation was thus constituted, had a superstructure of reddish brick found partly collapsed on the floors. This building has a fine facade on street 4 to the South/with what appears to be an entrance with monolithic monumental jambs 3,30 m wide. In the immediate vicinity of this entrance opened a well with a slightly ellipsoidal mouth. The importance of this building, built directly on the rock and reused/on several foi occasions, as bear witness, several superimposed floors above the thick original white floor, is also underlined by the richness pro- the importance bable of the tombs detected in this area: this is how of a pit dug by clandestine diggers one has removed

(1) C.F.A. Schaeffer, Enkomi-Alasia I, Paris, 1952, p. 44, no. 36 and p. 42, fig. 3; cf. ibid., p. 59-63.