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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 159 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.

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Sub-Mycenaean pottery, Late Bronze III second phase, to Iron I first phase

The whole of layer 2 is Late Bronze III -

Trench XVII - - Layer 2, Pt 6 Rim of "spindle bottle" (not preserved) (drawing) Handle of bowl "base ring" (not preserved) Sherd of fine cream fabric with Mycenaean decoration of brown concentric lines (not preserved) | Late Bronze II sherds (1450-1350)

- Layer 1 Krater rim with traces of (drawing) decoration in dark black; fine pottery soft and yellowish (not preserved) Bowl fragments in cream pottery with (drawing) black decoration (not preserved) Carinated bowl rim, fine pottery (drawing) (not preserved) Handle in fine pottery (not preserved) (drawing) | Sub-Mycenaean sherds Late Bronze III, second | phase (XVI A)

Bowl fragments "wavy lines" (not preserved) Cup base with red concentric decoration (not preserved) Cup rim with lug (drawing) flattened rim (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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