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… of base to pillars or wooden columns. On the other hand, it is almost certain that the room opening to the west of the hall must have been hypostyle, judging by the pillar monolithic, still in place, and at the foot of which lay the pottery vessels that had served in the cult ceremonies, vessels which made it possible to date the last period of activity of the sanctuary, in a definitive and unexpected manner, i.e. the Cypro-Geometric I or Protogeometric. [handwritten: 1150 to 970 BC]
It was indeed in this small room with a central pillar that were uncovered successively, on three floors of packed clayey brown earth, strongly compacted, lying between 0 m 40 and 0 m 90 deep only below the present surface, - a stypion or bowl with deep basin and two horizontal areas - a kylix or cup with inturned foot and two vertical areas - two kalathoi or vessels with concave wall and two horizontal areas below the rim - and a large amphora with pear-shaped body, two horizontal handles and tall cylindrical neck with flaring rim;
All these vases with linear painted decoration, belonging morphologically and stylistically to the pottery called "Proto-White Painted" and "White Painted Ware" in the English classification, established from the role modifier fonctionnaire of the necropoleis of Lapithos on the north coast of Cyprus, of Curium and of Kition on the south coast, although showing undeniable survivals of the subprotogeometric style (notably the wavy lines or "wavy lines"), these vases, so far at Enkomi, clearly date to the Cypro-Geometric I. They are directly comparable to those of tomb 430 of Lapithos and of tombs 25 and 26 of Curium.
The stratigraphic and ceramic observations made shortly afterwards in the great hall confirmed the existence of the three superimposed floors dating to the Cypro-Geometric I and covering the earlier strata of the Late Cypriot III, also attested in a sounding. [handwritten: [illegible]]
Thus, the sanctuary, founded at the end of the Bronze Age, was restored several times during the Cypriote Ter I ( Cypro-Geometric I ) when it was in full prosperity, judging by the remains of offerings and sacrifices uncovered throughout the hall, during the XIIe, XIe and perhaps X e centuries before our era.
Indeed, 26 horns of bulls were found, distributed in the three identified layers, among the fragments of pithos, one of which bore a brief inscription of five signs of the Cypro-Minoan script incised on the rim and two snakes with sinuous bodies modelled in slight relief on the shoulder.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain