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 113 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.

Page 35Scan 113 of 240

Detailed analysis of layer 3: 70 to 165 cm - Masked by the floor of layer 2 - It is . A/ from 70 to 100 cm: along the east wall, heap of bricks burnt; along the south wall, collapsed stones; along the west wall, fallen stones and bricks burnt - Against the east wall, stone bowl caught in the burnt bricks - Against the west wall, trough or trough-shaped earth dried, filled in by the burnt bricks - Against the north wall, whose stones are calcined in places - and in the centre: ashes and piled sherds - The pottery consists almost exclusively of common jars crushed in place; near the S.W. corner, fragments of a bowl of type "wavy lines" -

B/ from 100 to 130 cm: Burnt earth, except in the centre where the pottery piled continues, slightly less dense

C/ from 130 to 150 cm: Bed of pottery crushed in place extending up to the four walls, with gaps or pockets of fill earth - Animal bones - The jars predominate; some have distinctive marks on the handles; two

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

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