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Attempt at dating the levels
[double vertical line spanning 6 linesI think we can now venture to draw levels for the eastern portion of QN: the rubble walls from the surface down to 0.80 c. and especially between QN 6 and 9 are the latest and belong no doubt to the Submycenaean despite the rarity of sherds of that period. This rarity can be explained by the sparse character of the Submycenaean settlement in this quarter. Around 0.80 we have the level of dressed stones and of the bronze hoard. Level Mycenaean with traces of fire. The sherds seem to indicate the XIVe c. but it is not impossible that these structures are older and have been reused. Finally in QN 9 and 7 at 1 m 10 we reach a 3rd floor resting on sherds in places purely Middle Bronze. Note that the asphalt of the road - also holding these sherds is a little higher. As the XVIe - XVe c. sherds are equally ] numerous, one can think they correspond to floor 1.10 (immediately above the Middle Bronze) and thus to the period of the construction of the "dressed stones" and of the well of dressed stones, reused afterwards. But all these structures are so ruined the sherds are so mixed up that the strati-
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain