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 151 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 55Scan 151 of 240

Trench XI - (see p. 70) - Layer 4, Pt 12 1 miniature jug in chamois pottery: (preserved)

Drawing: outline of a miniature jug with handle

1 fragment of handle in cream pottery with brown inner slip, brown outer decoration (preserved)

Drawing: sherd with handle stub and scale-like pattern

1 chip of rim "milk bowl" (not preserved) 1 fragment of jug neck in whitish pottery with brown decoration (not preserved)

Drawing: rectangular sherd with three horizontal hatched bands

1 flaring rim of cup with brown decoration (not preserved)

Drawing: profile of a flaring rim with hatched bands

Poterie mycénienne RB II (XIVe s)

- Layer 3 1 base of cup in fine cream pottery with fine concentric decoration inside (not preserved)

Drawing: profile of a vessel base

1 rim of cup in fine cream pottery with horizontal handle (not preserved)

Drawing: rim sherd with horizontal loop handle

1 sherd with cream slip, fine pottery chamois, traces of bright red decoration (not preserved) 1 rim of carinated cup very flaring (not preserved)

Drawing: profile of a carinated flaring rim

fine pottery LH III (1225-1200) or slightly earlier)

1 yellow sherd well fired, with yellow slip and concentric lines in faded brown (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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