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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 189 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 74Scan 189 of 240

1 "bucchero" sherd with ribs, good workmanship (not kept). 18 sherds with parallel-line decoration (not kept) 2 common jugs (Pt 38) (Inv No 189, 190) 1 limestone polisher (Inv No 191) | Pottery beginning Iron I (1200-1150) | mainly sub-Mycenaean

- Layer 2 1 bowl rim "wavy lines" (not kept) 1 bowl body fragment "wavy lines" (drawing) yellow pottery (not kept) 1 vessel base fragment "bucchero" degenerate over the full perimeter (not kept) 1 degenerate "base ring" handle fragment (drawing) (not kept) | Sherds end Iron I (1150-1050

- Layer 1 1 bowl rim in beige pottery with (drawing) worn brown decoration (not kept 1 sherd with brown interior decoration (not kept) (drawing) 1 quadruped figurine fragment (Inv No 85) | Mixed surface material-

The trench XXXVI comprises a layer where sherds of the MB III and LB I are mixed, a layer of LB II, a layer of LB III phase final, a layer of the beginning and one of the end of Iron I -

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

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