Manuscript·34 CDF art. 143·1947

Enkomi inventory 1947Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 161 of manuscript 34 CDF art. 143 (Enkomi inventory 1947), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 143, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 70Scan 161 of 230

Tombs and Deposits of the

North Quarter

Tomb 3

no. 3700to 3746Cf. Journal p 642 Tomb situated in QN 11E, not looted, cut into the limestone. Floor at 2,00 m. Vessels and ornaments (no skeleton complete) rested between the floor and 1 m, 85, in the earth. Homogeneous sherds: bowls Cypriote 1st style, many ware of the 1st period Date: later than Middle Bronze Age but earlier than the penetration of Mycenaean influence XVI-XVe c. (not after 1450). (a fill tomb very [illegible] T 2)

Dromos

depth 1,60 closed by 2 large stones; against the rock the wall had collapsed.

3700Bead in terracotta, incised (drawing) 0,032 long Also found here 3745 to 46

In the Tomb

3701Small jug with long neck. ImportPironin
Syrian. Brownish and blackish paintDrawing Pironin
on pale yellow earth without slip.no. 34.
h. 0,17, w. of body: 0,085.

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

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