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In the North quarter of the town, where the quality of the constructions encountered during earlier soundings had attracted our attention, it was possible to clear almost entirely a spacious building constructed of ashlar and which must have been one of the outstanding buildings of the Mycenaean town: perhaps a princely residence provided with a small sanctuary. This building, constructed as early as the 13th century on a site which had been abandoned after the destruction of the Middle Bronze or Middle Egyptian Kingdom town tian, underwent a series of transformations and partial reconstructions. Concrete floors superimposed at very close intervals and each characterised by its own pottery, allow a close following of the evolution of the archaeological material during the 13th and especially of the 12th century.
For the first time, the remains, difficult to date, of the end of the Mycenaean and the Sub-Protogeometric period have been found in stratified layers and observed in situ. [handwritten: 13th] The results of our observations favour a date slightly earlier than that of the extreme end of the 13th century which has been attributed to the destructive invasion which put an end to the Mycenaean period and to the civilisation of the Bronze Age in general.
About the middle of the second half of the 13th century, we had the good fortune to discover a small hoard of bronze tablets, some forty pieces, a veritable sample of a bronze-worker's stock, consisting
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65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain