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

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… near sherds which seem to be Late Mycenaean (13th c.) and of which several cup bases with a motif of the spiral.

The sherds around the treasure (QN 5-6 E sac à part) are abundant but very mixed: on the surface already frag. of Cypriot bowl, pieces of the pottery with broad painted band (14th c.) and various handles reddish rough ware, one of which is funicular: Pieces of a large cup in bronze with thin walls, pieces of bronze instruments. There is therefore a great deal of bronze in the area. A little lower, at the level of the treasure and below, handles painted, base ring ware, sometimes a fairly good piece of lustrous Mycenaean. All this seems to date back to the 14th c. c. and the sherds of pt 12 discussed by Furumark but found in sum at 3 or 4 metres from the treasure, seem to me to be the most recent of what there is in all this. Below the red on black ware inv. QN 6 O a fine vessel handle between 0,50 and 80 in bronze, sherds of grey-black earth smooth (fairly recent what I had believed to be