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 153 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 56Scan 153 of 240

- Layer 2 1 fragment of ladle (not preserved) 1 worn painted sherd in yellowish fabric (drawing) (not preserved) | Probably beginning Iron I (12th c.)

- Layer 1 1 grooved bowl rim in (drawing) brick-red pottery (not preserved) 1 flaring bowl rim with red lines (drawing) on the inside of the rim (not preserved) 1 sherd of late "bucchero" (not preserved) 1 bowl rim, convex fairly fine yellowish pottery (drawing) (not preserved) 1 bowl fragment, yellowish fabric, with dark brown decoration (drawing) (not preserved) | Pottery beginning Iron I, transitional | or "submycenaean" (1200-1150)

In Trench IV, there would therefore be a layer of the beginning of Iron I, with floor corresponding - then a layer of LB III, with floor laid on the virgin soil - finally a well going back perhaps to LB II but certainly to LB III.

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

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