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 77 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 39Scan 77 of 124

27/ IX /65.

Drawing: hatched profile of a rim; labels: < 3.25 >

Rim in thick ware ware brick fired yu with traces of having been bonded with straw. On outside edge mark of woven cloth where potter has apparently left an impression of his finger through cloth . Also fragment of copper slag. Tr 5N Sounding B Pottery continued -1.75 -> -1.85 ie from below level II to white floor level III through brick fall. Only 11 sherds all (except 1) Plain Wares.

3 sherds make rim of v. coarse straw bound fired ware ? hand made Rim wedge shaped 4.5 cms thick (drawing) Only slightly curved ∴ of a very large industrial vessel. Very worn as tho inminundation level rim Wave 1 cm thick . (drawing)

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

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