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Syro-Palestinian amphorae (718 b-c, h on Pl. LI, 3,4) and an incense-burner (346 on Pl. LI, 2). The decorated LCIII ware on this floor includes an amphoriskos (347 on Pl. LII, 5) the shape of which is evidently inherited from earlier Mycenean prototypes. This gives one more link between this ware and the Mycenean pottery, a link which led Gjerstad to call it debased Levanto-Helladic ware (1).
The remaining floors (II-I) show a predominence of Mycenean IIIC: 1 wares with wavy lines (Pl. LII, LIII) among decorated LCIII, bucchero wheel-made wares and plain wheel-made bowls of shape inherited from the base-ring ware (724 f, n on Pl. LIII).
The ceramic evidence therefore from room III shows again three distinct stages; the earliest floors (falling between floors VI-V and floor V) with still a good proportion of Cypriot wares (white slip, basering) and of Mycenean IIIC: 1 as well as of a few Mycenean IIIB fragments. During the middle stage (floors IV-II) we observe the ascendancy of the decorated LCIII ware and the beginning of the /Mycenean
(1) OA III, 74 ff.
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