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Inv.17.98); 977 (at 0 m 30, Inv.17.320); 991 (at 0 m 80, Inv.17.80); 1072 (at 1 m 50, Inv.17.250); 989 (at 0 m 70, Inv.1781); 999 (at 0 m 40); 1056 (at 1 m 10, Inv. 17.327); 977 (at 0 m 40, Inv.17.332); 672 (at 1 m., in the street, Inv.1741); 1091 (at 1 m 80); The courtyard situated in the north-west corner of the house is provided with a door giving onto the street of the Palace. It extends on the north-east side by a small room containing, leaning against a wall pier, the start of a staircase leading up to the first floor. The few finds to be noted from the courtyard and from the room that follows it also date from the end of the Late Bronze (14th or 13th c.). Here is their description: in the courtyard: topographic pt. 1702 (at 0 m 60) whetstone, veined rock, pierced at the end, fig. (Inv.20.111); pt.1717 (at 1 m 50) small chisel and fr. of another bronze tool, next to a spindle whorl in grey terracotta; pt.1732 (at 1 m 80) burnisher (?) in ivory; pt.1756 base of a bread oven whose lower part enters 36 cm below the level of the floor of the courtyard, situated here at 1 m 70 relative to the present surface. Of the bell-shaped oven wall with a approximate diameter of 0 m 95 there survive fairly large plaques of strongly fired earth, thick at 3 to 4 cm. Their inner face, whitish in colour, is perfectly smooth like that of bread ovens of the same shape and same size still used up- … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain