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30/9/58 Region of the Temple - East Area - 1st Trench (East of the North-South road) Trench begun in 1953, resumption of the excavation.
Pt 196: stone seal - north end of trench, in a layer of ash 5 cm thick above a floor (probably Floor II) depth: 1.10 -
Pt 197: gold ring - 2 m NW of the preceding, in the thickness of the floor (probably Floor II). depth: 1.25 -
Pt 198: bronze ring. midway between the two E-W roads, depth: 1.35
Beneath Pt 196, masked by Floor II, a well whose top is at 1.50 -
Pottery: Pt 196: fine pottery with sober decoration beginning of Iron Age I (1200-1150) Pt 197: pottery with concentric decoration same period (1 sherd). Well beneath pt 197 and layer on the rock (reached at 2.00): RB I-II pottery: "milk bowl" "base ring", red slip, "elongated jug" - and MB III: "red on black", burnished, etc -
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain