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… surface of which was heavily burnt and is therefore a hearth. On its north-western corner was a rectangular stone, 0,46m. in length, 0,31min width and 0,22m. in thickness. This hearth was formed on a layer of broken pottery which was placed for the [handwritten: Rem of the floor] purpose on the floor of the room (Pl.XXIII, 7-9).
This pottery therefore represents the current wares [handwritten: new fall catalogue of Enkomi p.157] at the time immediately following the erection of [handwritten: or following the clearing of the church? p.34 39 47] the building and is therefore of great chronological importance. It includes the side-spouted jug 758 a (Pl.XXV, 2,5) which is decorated with antithetical stemmed spirals (cf. Furumark, Analysis, Fig.63, mot. 51, 19) which is characteristic of [handwritten: the] the Mycenean III C: end of the thirteenth - [handwritten: according to whom?] 1 e, i.e. beginning of the twelfth century B.C. The shape is also characteristic of the same period and is a favourite one in Philistine pottery (1). A pattern similar to that on 758 a recurs on another fragmentary vase from the hearth foundation of /cylindrical
(1) Furumark, OA III, 236 and note 7. A fragment of another side-spouted jug comes from room XXVII, pl. LXIX,2.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain