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 195 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 77Scan 195 of 240

1 krater handle fragment in pottery (drawing) fine buff, with dark brown decoration with flaking surface (preserved) 1 jar sherd in fine cream pottery with bands concentric dark brown, covered with small flakes ( not preserved)

Sherds worn and damaged by the fire, Mycenaean of LB II-III; use of the floor.

- Layer 3 1 krater rim in green pottery (drawing) black decoration, of careless workmanship (preserved) 1 krater rim similar in beige pottery with brown decoration (not preserved) 1 pithos rim, coarse pottery (drawing) whitish with red decoration on the flattened rim (not preserved) 1 jug rim, common ware (not preserved) (drawing)

1 carinated cup rim, pottery (drawing) white ( not preserved) 1 cup base in beige pottery (drawing) with concentric black decoration (not preserved) 1 base, greenish pottery, brown spiral (not preserved) (drawing) 3 bases without decoration (not preserved) (drawing) Iron Age type

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

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