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 41 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.

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9/X/63.

dressed stone as a support : to effect this the earth and ash between the bricks of the kiln and its stone surrounding wall were removed in a wedge shaped cut 90cm wide at the top tapering down the brick wall of the kiln to 50 cm.

This day was largely spent sorting the pottery removed from the Western and Eastern pits within the kiln : and also that from trench 322 E. It was strikingly noticeable that Mycenaean ware, spindle bottles, base-ring ware, milk bowls were present at all the levels in these pits and almost wholly lacking in the outside trench, the pottery from which was much more uniform and confined to a few rather coarse jars.

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

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