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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 171 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 65Scan 171 of 240

Trench XXVI – (see p. 79 and 85) – Tomb Pt 15: 1 jar and 1 jug in common pottery (Inv no. 57, 58), 1 bronze bowl (Inv no. 59), 1 ivory disc (Inv no. 180) – | beginning of Iron I (XIIe s)

– Layer 3, pit of tomb Pt 15 Mixed and little usable materials: Mycenaean, sub-Mycenaean, early Iron Age sherds – (not preserved) 2 loom weights (Inv no. 60, 61) – Tomb Pt 10: layer 2 – 1 common jar (Inv no. 29), 1 common jug 1 jug in common pottery (Inv no. 31), 1 late "bucchero" jug (Inv no. 30), 1 bronze bowl (Inv no. 28) | beginning of Iron I (XIIe s)

– Layer 1 – bowls with flaring rim sub-Mycenaean (not preserved) (drawing) with black decoration | beginning of Iron I (XIIe s)

Trench XXXI – (see p. 86) 1 jug in common pottery (Pt 16) (Inv. no. 56) | Iron I

cylindrical spout, white pottery with red decoration (drawing) carinated bowl, white pottery (drawing) (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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