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French Archaeological Expedition to Enkomi-Alasia 1960 Season.
The French Archaeological Expedition to Enkomi-Alasia directed by Professor C. F. A. Schaeffer, member of the Académie des Inscriptions de Paris, assisted by seven collaborators from France and a member of the Cyprus Antiquities Department carried out during the months of September and November October last its 13th season of excavations at the famous Late Bronze site of Enkomi. The excavations were concentrated in the centre of the town Mycenaean along the main north-south street. A residential quarter of the 14th and 13th c. B.C. was cleared and numerous tools, weapons, weights, ornaments and other objects of this period were recovered. The burial chambers situated under the houses had nevertheless all been looted in antiquity or visited by modern treasure-seekers as a result of the shallow depth of the rock table below the present aclevel, which facilitated searching with a probe. One category of finds, however, was numerous and of exceptional quality: that of the engraved cylinder seals with religious scenes. Three of these
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain