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ring I ware, two fragments of bichrome Milia ware and a few other secondary wares (red slip, wheel-made and plain wheel-made I) cf. 769-771 on Pl. XXXVII. If this evidence is confirmed by more extensive excavations in the deposit underlying this part of our building, we would be justified in attributing the wall uncovered and floors V-VII connected with it to LC I A, ie. the sixteenth to fifteenth centuries B.C. (1).
The topmost of the three early floors i.e. floor V, was cut by the builders of our building when they dug the foundation trenches for the south wall of room X (wall 11 on Pl. I) and for the pillar standing between rooms X and XIII (no. 16, on Plan Pl. I/.). also section XX(square H16) on Pl.VII,2. It would therefore appear that this depression in the rock was inhabited in the LCI period then abandoned and reoccupied in the LCIII. Dr.Schaeffer (2) notes a hiatus between the end of the Middle /Cypriot
(1) Sjoqvist, Problems, 108. Schaeffer, Stratigraphie Comparée, 377 ff. The first of these authors place the LCI between 1550 and 1400, the second between 1600 and 1450 B.C.
(2) Stratigraphie, 586 ff.
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