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 149 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 54Scan 149 of 240

bracket connecting this block to the "1 bec cylindrique..." line below1 fine orange sherd with cream slip, (drawing) concentric black lustrous decoration (preserved) 1 rim of cup with thick walls, (drawing) whitish pottery, red painted bands (not preserved) 3 coarse sherds with concentric decoration brown (not preserved) 2 bases of cups in common pottery with spiral painted brown on the base (not preserved) Lower part of a jug in (drawing) greenish pottery, with painted decoration exterior in black (not preserved) | Mycenaean pottery L H III (XIIIth c.) -

- Tomb Pt 3 3 jugs of late "bucchero" type (Inv no. 7, 9, 12) 1 bronze bowl (Inv no. 8), 1 bronze spatula (Inv no. 10), 1 steatite small bowl (Inv no. 11) | beginning Iron I (XIIth c.)

- Layer 2 1 degenerate "bucchero" base, brick-red pottery with dark red slip. (not preserved) 1 cylindrical spout greenish paste (drawing) same vessel as the base above (not preserved 1 coarse sherd with black concentric decoration (not preserved) small basket handle (not preserved) 1 limestone dish (Inv no. 6) | beginning Iron I (1200-1150)

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

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