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Notebook·34 CDF art. 146-4·1958

Enkomi excavation notebook 1958: continued study of the finds from the 1958 magnetic soundingsH. de Contenson

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

Scan 1 of notebook 34 CDF art. 146-4 (Enkomi excavation notebook 1958: continued study of the finds from the 1958 magnetic soundings), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 146-4, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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20/10/58 Continuation of the study of the material from the soundings magnetic of 1958 -

Trench XLV - (see p. 14, 26) - Layer 7 1 spout at the rim of a pottery cup beige with brown decoration (not preserved) (drawing) 1 buff sherd with brown decoration (not preserved) (drawing)

1 fragment of basket handle in pottery buff with dark red decoration (not preserved) (drawing) 1 fragment of cup handle in pottery white with black decoration (not preserved) (drawing) 3 "milk bowl" sherds (not preserved) 1 jug neck in gritty pottery whitish with light brown decoration (not preserved) (drawing) 3 similar sherds (not preserved) 1 rim of lustrous cream pottery cup (not preserved) (drawing)

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

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