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 115 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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handles bear the mark of a stamp (drawing) probably of wood: But there are also some bowls "wavy lines", a "bucchero" vessel (all fragmentary) a few other sherds of Iron I and a fragment of a stirrup vase - 1/2 mortar in basalt. At 1.35, in the SE corner, a rod of engraved ivory. At 1.50, in the centre, an arrowhead and three bronze buttons (see p. 29), and in the NW corner, a bronze plaque.

D/ from 150 to 165 cm: layer of earth extending down to the base of the walls.

Next comes layer 4: 165 to 220 cm Fine greenish earth with charcoal under the walls Under pt 25, again abundant pottery [illegible] the rock forms a hollow of 30 cm in depth (190 to 220 cm); jars broken in place, of the same type as in layer 3; near the SE corner, two bowls which seem to belong to the beginning of Iron I, sont resting on the rock pt 42. At the centre, at 1.80, bronze rod. In the NW, cavity in the rock, not yet emptied but which has already yielded a MB III sherd.

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

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