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 123 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 40Scan 123 of 240

1 cup base in fine white pottery (drawing) (not preserved) 1 bo Sherds Late Mycenaean or "Close style"

1 flaring bowl rim in pottery (drawing) chamois, fine, with whitish slip decoration of 2 red lines (preserved) 1 bowl rim of the same type, of poorer workmanship (not preserved) Sherds of Late Mycenaean or of the Sub-Mycenaean (transition) - possibly therefore contemporary with the preceding group.

Layer 2 attributed to LB III second phase (Close style) (1225-1200)

- Layer 1 fragments of a bowl with straight walls (drawing) and black concentric decoration (preserved) fragments of a cup with straight rim (drawing) red brick pottery, concentric red decoration (not preserved) carinated cup rim in yellow pottery (drawing) (not preserved) cup rim of the same type (not preserved)

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

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