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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 53 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 27Scan 53 of 240

– Layer 6

1 carinated bowl, fine buff pottery, very sober bright red decoration (Inv no. 127) Fragments of a cup in fine pottery buff with bright red decoration (drawing) (preserved)

1 bowl rim, fine pottery with brown decoration (preserved) (drawing)

1 cup rim, fine pottery whitish with brown decoration (drawing)

1 carinated bowl rim, in pottery buff with white slip on both faces 2 (drawing) well burnished (not preserved)

1 thin flaring rim with black slip on the exterior, black decoration on the interior (preserved) (drawing)

1 flaring rim, white pottery with flaking brown decoration (preserved) (drawing)

1 flaring rim, white slip on the exterior, (preserved) red band at the rim then buff interior wall 1 white bucchero sherd with slip black. (not preserved) (drawing)

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

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