Ayios Epiktitos-Mezarlik: Dikaios's trial excavations

In 1934 Porphyrios Dikaios dug trial trenches at Mezarlik, in plot 410, and at Kel Ali, in plot 462¹. At Mezarlik the trench reached bedrock and exposed an occupation deposit 1.60 m deep with three phases of stone hut foundations¹. The finds were pottery fragments and two complete pots, with red wares more common than red-on-white ware, together with flint implements, stone axes and steatite ornaments, which Şevketoğlu glosses as picrolite¹. At Kel Ali Dikaios found a roughly circular hut¹. In her 1998 thesis, which recounts the work, Şevketoğlu gives the sites' earlier tentative datings as Chalcolithic for Mezarlik and Early Bronze Age for Kel Ali¹.