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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 13 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 7Scan 13 of 240

brown or red lustrous paint (not preserved) 1 tesson fin à couverte marron sur les 2 faces (not preserved)

1 pestle (Inv no. 112) 1 lid (?) in brick-red pottery (Inv no. 113) | RB II-III sherds, Mycenaean

1 body fragment of jar in soft pottery (drawing) with careless brown decoration (preserved)

1 upper part of bowl in fine pottery (drawing) whitish, with light brown decoration (preserved)

1 fragment of jug neck in pottery (drawing) similar (not preserved)

1 gritty sherd with white slip and parallel brown-red bands (not preserved)

1 rim of bowl in yellowish pottery, (drawing) carinated (not preserved)

1 fragment of cup handle (not preserved) (drawing)
Fine RB III or early Iron I sherds
Sub-Mycenaean

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

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