Enkomi inventory 1947Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

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3287	(drawing)	Neck and lip of ewer (frag.) but	QR 2 0
		it is a rhyton l. reddish clay	on depth 0,60
		h. 0,07. Sherds reddish brick clay	level Mycenaean mid.
		coarse, base with sharp point of	or sub-Mycenaean inf.
		vessel krater [illegible]

3288	(drawing)	frag. of lustrous red pottery	QR 1 (Tr. Sud 2)
		on cream slip. 0,035	0,30 (therefore above
		end of 14th c. or beginning of 13th c.	floor at 0,30) floor Late Mycenaean

3289	(drawing)	Frag. of small cup	QR 2
		ochre clay unpainted	between floor 0,40 and floor 0,60
		h. 0,05	level sub-Mycenaean mid.

3290	(drawing)	Sherd reddish clay	QR 2
		painted dark red	between floor 0,65 and floor
		h. 0,06	0,90 above rock
		Sherd ochre clay white-cream slip	i.e. between level sub-Mycenaean
		and reddish and frag. of small cup fine clay
		rim painted black sub-Mycenaean

3291	Three small Mycenaean sherds fine clay	QR 2 Pt 9
	lustrous. End of 14th c. or beginning	between floor 1,00 and floor 1,20
	(drawing)	13th c. Found	in fire layer
		in ashy earth	level Late Mycenaean
	Important for dating the fire the
	earliest noted in the QR. Probably
	the one that put an end to the Mycenaean town
	around 1250 B.C. Note that sherds
	Mycenaean less carefully made than these have
	been found not far from there and higher up it is
	e.g. just at the scene later than the fire of the	13th c. inf.

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

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