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 203 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 81Scan 203 of 240

- Layers 4 to 6 1 sherd with white exterior slip concentric brown bands, black interior slip with traces of white decoration (preserved)

Drawing: two views of a painted sherd and its profile

1 sherd of fine ware, burnt, with brown lustrous decoration and slip interior, bowl rim

Drawing: rim profile and hatched band decoration

1 handle with square profile, fine ware lustrous brown paint (not preserved)

Drawing: rectangular-section handle

1 sherd, fine beige ware with matt red decoration (not preserved)

Drawing: sherd with hatched geometric decoration and profile

8 fragments of "milk bowl" bowls of the evolved type (1 only preserved) 1 pithos in fine, well burnished ware (Pt 29) (Inv no. 92)

Drawing: rim and neck profile of a vessel

1 polished basalt pestle (Inv no. 93)found in
1 scarab (Inv no. 94)the pithos
1 Mycenaean pottery RB II

- Layer 3 1 cup rim in soft yellowish ware with red decoration of broad wavy bands (not preserved)

Drawing: profile of a cup rim with loop handle, and exterior view of handle with painted bands

3 sherds of similar cups, with a broad band wavy on the body and parallel lines near the base, thin walls (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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