Notebook·34 CDF art. 134-5·1965

Enkomi-Alasia excavations, 1965: notebook of W. JohnstoneW. Johnstone

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

Scan 11 of notebook 34 CDF art. 134-5 (Enkomi-Alasia excavations, 1965: notebook of W. Johnstone), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 134-5, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 6Scan 11 of 124

17/IX/65

Tr. 87N (through clay-mud level -> - c 0.90m. red crumbly level) Pottery only about 24 plain wheel made ware sherds : 1 fragment of large vase with incised concentric ring decoration.

Tr 12N (through mud-clay level -> -0.90m) Pottery only about 11 sherds – plain wheel made wares.

Throughout sector 1N–12N there are in the clay-mud level occasional round pebbles which reinforce the conclusion that this thick uniform level is water laid.

Tr 8N crumbly red-white speck brick level appearing at -0.90m.

Tr. 3N (through mud-clay level -> crumbly red -1.05m) Pottery about 3 doz sherds mostly worn : plain wheel made 1 rim squarish rounded (drawing) ? circum c 30 cm.

– reddish ware ring base

– whitish ware flat base

– greenish cream ware. 3 worn dark brown rings discernible inside.

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

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