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Notebook·34 CDF art. 146-2·1958–1960

Enkomi 4th notebook, 1958 and 1960H. de Contenson

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

Scan 117 of notebook 34 CDF art. 146-2 (Enkomi 4th notebook, 1958 and 1960), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 146-2, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 117 of 210

Stamp: 56

Material Trench South, first third Mixed pottery: beginning Late Bronze Typical Mycenaean Late Mycenaean and beginning Iron Fragment of quern adapted as polisher 1 loom weight of baked earth. no. 128 (drawing)

Material Trench North, West side, sectors 01-08

Sector 01 pottery scarce RB I: bichrome, base-ring Mycenaean Iron Age - end RB

Sector 02: pottery rare and not very characteristic nothing preserved (region Pts 310, 325)

Sector 03: pottery scarce bichrome sherd - fragment of Mycenaean cup. small RB jug - spout with lustrous red paint. small cup - (region Pts 305, 306, 308, 324) 3 loom weights of baked earth, 3 spindle whorls (2 t.c. 1 steatite), 1 basalt pestle. no. 55

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

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