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… on Pl. LVII, 5) as well as two fragments of painted bowls similar to 726, 1, m on Pl. IV found in the fill underneath the floor. All this pottery although not found actually on floor V is in immediate contact with it and as this floor is the first actual one of the building, the pottery in question belongs to the period immediately after the conflagration and the alterations which followed. [handwritten: of this he does not / say it is earlier / contexts into / later context!] The main feature in the next floor (IV) which was the first following the rearrangements is the decorated LCIII ware (147 b, 154 a-e, 155a on Pl. LVIII) but it was a fragmentary deep bowl with remarkably painted ornamentation (147 a on Pl. LVIII, 2). Its shape is inherited from similar Mycenean bowls while the ornamentation has counterparts in the Mycenean LHIIC: 1 repertory of patterns. It is however of local workmanship and is important for the study of the development of Cypriot pottery in the LCIII period and the transition to the Early Iron Age. The same floor yielded the upper part of a plain wheel-made III jug (IIIg on Pl. LVIII, 5) and other plain pottery as well as stone querns and grinders (Pl. LVIII, 4). In
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain