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