2nd and 3rd seasons at Enkomi, excavation notebook no. 2Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

Stamp: 50

of bronze, no doubt abandoned by the peasants who had previously looted the tombs. The pottery is varied, the majority rough ware but a good number of painted sherds however. The impression is clear, the remains here are older. Little pottery subMycenaean, it no longer dominates as near the ramparts. Some rare Mycenaean or imitation Mycenaean pieces ; et par by contrast many Cypriot bowls with white slip or in earth brick-coloured, unpainted. Some sherds painted, of Syrian import (with red and black bands), some sherds of Base-ring and shaved ware, ware, some fragments in greyish incised earth which recall par the style of the piece found near the ramparts. Some rare pieces of red on red or of red on black ware, attest that if we are in the presence of a level which must date to around the 15th - 14th c., there is no doubt below the Bronze Middle.

The lesson of this first day's work of excavation in a sector of the town clearly