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Courtois ENKOMI 59
Wednesday 11 / November / 1959Opening of the excavations at 7H with only 22 pairs of workmen owing to difficulties in recruiting of labour. The investigations extend over two N-S trenches, one to the east, the other to the south of the « temple de la Lune », and of the "temple area" (38m and 16m long respectively) Area of fine grey ashes, layer extending to a thickness of 20 cm in the trench to the east of temple 9. At the south end of the trench south, discovery of a spindle whorl biconical, of steatite, decorated with six incised circles (on second floor, at -1m depth, with fragment of ladle-censer in t. c. and base of pointed jug, Point 218). Pottery collected otherwise very poor as regards the upper level, from the present surface to -0 m 80 on average (some painted sherds, _XIIth_ c.?)
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain