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explamation is on the whole more satisfactory.
Floor III is notable for the discovery on it [handwritten: Floor II] of three impressive deposits of bowls of wheel-made base-ring type (Pl. XIX, XX). a few specimens of are which illustrated on Pls. XLIII. 5-7; XXXVII. 5. Among these bowls was an example (358 on Plate XLIII. 7) which is of Mycenean IIIC: 4 type (c.f. Furumark, Amlyatis. Fig. 15. type 295) and is chronologically valuable. But apart from this bowl we collected a few fragments of bowls which are decorated with ornaments in the "close style" (704 c on Pl. XLIII. d) or with wavy lines (704 d-f on the same Plate).
These are also of great value chronologically as they connect the three piles of bowls, which are of traditional Cypriot shape, with twelfth century Mycenean styles such as have been found in other rooms (¹).
Among the bowls of one of the deposits was an alabaster jug with the limestone lid nearby (263 on Pl. XIII, 4) which is of Egyptian type but probably introduced
(¹) Apart from these Mycenean IIIC: 4 fragments we found a small fragment of Levanto-Mycenean vessel with scale pattern (704 a on Pl. XIII. 4) and another fragment of white slip bowl (704 b on the same Plate).
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain