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ENK. 1960
20 September.My first day on the area, opened on 5 Sept. by R. Kuss and H. de Contenson. - A long north-south trench having already yielded a fairly interesting series of objects, several of which fine Syrian cylinders and seals of the Sea Peoples”, extends in the direction of the east: parallel to the N-S road _ To the south of the "temple of the moon", opening of a new portion of the N-S trench, immediately to the north-east of the "Paving". At the south end of the trench N-S, the excavation there is at midheight between the Paving and the present surface; the brick-red earth clearly predominates. Fragments of an ivory plaque with incised linear decoration near 28
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain