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… of rooms in the South Building took place. These rearrangements form part of the general reconditioning of the whole compound, which was carried out after the conflagration which damaged a large part of it. In fact traces of fire were observable on this floor. No pottery was found on the latter; in fact in all rooms the floors on which the conflagration and the resultant alterations took place yielded little pottery, which is probably to be explained by systematic sweeping up and removal of all the debris which accumulated on the floors as a result of the disaster.
But if floor V yielded no pottery, the layer between this floor and the succeeding floor IV provided compensation in an ample series, which included much characteristic pottery of the LCIII period (727 on pl. LVII). There were a few Middle Cypriot wares, a fair number of base-ring II, white slip II, and other secondary wares such as black and red wheel-made and painted wheel-made. Apart from these the layer contained a good quantity of decorated LCIII ware (727 & on pl. LVII, 1j) and Mycenaean IIIC: 1 fragmenta (727 K-p on … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain