Letter on the 1966 Enkomi excavations sent to Mr Karageorghis, with a photograph enclosedClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

fragment of a vase stand in greyish terracotta on which are painted pro of some twenty signs of the Cypro-Minoan syllabary, more or less legible, identical to the signs incised on the terracotta balls and on the few votive tablets or fragments themselves in recent years.

On the other hand, cut into the rock, from a central quarter of the town have yielded very interesting fragments of Cypriot pottery of the middle rough style, decorated with large bulls painted in a reddish tint.

Finally, from one of the numerous tombs cut into the limestone rock table of the North quarter of Enkomi, formerly looted, two vases were removed of types rarely associated until now in grave goods of the site: the bowl with characteristic spirals attributable to the beginning of Cypriot Iron I (or Mycenaean III C 1) and the truncated bowl with two small horizontal handles at the rim and with painted concentric bands.

New research in the area of the West Enclosure of the town.

The aim was to clarify certain stratigraphic observations and architectural data relating to the West Enclosure of the town at the end of the Bronze Age, notably to the north, west and east of the Gate. The defensive work is bordered by remains of houses contemporary with the Cypriot Iron I which were partially cleared. In one of these houses yielded a bronze grinder and two iron tools, including a sturdy sickle, among jars and jugs with semicircular vertical handle, found on the floor of the second phase of the town, around a circular hearth area.

In the area extending north of the West Gate, the resumption of the excavations made it possible to clarify the contemporaneity of the construction of the cyclopean enclosure of large blocks and of the [illegible] ...

notes. The date of the XIII century itself was also confirmed by the scarabs of Cloisonné type of the Hyksos period ... of Cypriot Iron I, a fill [illegible] ... times possibly of furniture still in place (jars and grinders, of plaster, and a large terracotta mutule, as well as a lot of five fine fragments of history ...) varied in solid bronze.