Notebook·34 CDF art. 136-1·1963

Excavation notebook of Johnstone, Enkomi 1963, 15th seasonW. Johnstone

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 185 of notebook 34 CDF art. 136-1 (Excavation notebook of Johnstone, Enkomi 1963, 15th season), handwritten in English. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 136-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 185 of 196

Stamp: 93

decoration . 4x4 4x5 x .85 cm thick .

Pottery of N baulk above Kiln doorway cf p 10. 1. -0.50 -> -0.60 - level of brick wall. 29 sherds Only coarse domestic wares - alluvia gris graveleux, beige, pink, types . one fragment prob. of local imitation Mycenaean - flakey powdery grey / pink ware with trace of band in black/ red .

2. -0.60 -> -0.80 m - brown soil and stones of rough wall 36 sherds Again almost exclusively domestic wares represented of the familiar types - disc base & bowls main forms pisa dark beige -> pink - bowl c 28 cms diam inturning rim with two incised bands outside . Traces of two purple painted bands inside . brick red cracked ware. - fragt of Mycenaean beige ware with trace of brown painting outside.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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