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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 127 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 42Scan 127 of 240

Trench I - (see p. 67) - Layer 2 (looted tomb) fragments of "milk bowl" bowls (not kept) fragments of degenerate "red on black" (not kept) 1 rim of "base ring" bowl (not kept) fragment of cup in fine buff pottery, with slip cream, with a red band (not kept) | RB I-II sherds, looted tomb of the | XVe et XIVe s.

- Layer 1 Iron I sherds, not very characteristic (not kept) 1 carinated footed cup in (drawing) yellowish pottery (kept) 1 loom weight (Inv no. 1) | Fer I (XIIe-XIe s)

Trench III - (see p. 68) - Layers 3 and 2 1 complete "base ring" bowl with wall (drawing) very thin (Inv no. 5) Rims of coarser "base ring" bowls (not kept) 1 rim of small vessel in green pottery (drawing) with black decoration (not kept) 1 neck base of jug in grey pottery (drawing) with horizontal grooves (not kept)

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

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