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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 77 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 39Scan 77 of 240

22/10/58 Observations on the 1957 material deposited in the store and remarks found on labels -

- Pt 4, 1.00 to 1.25: base of vase RB III

- Pt 11, 0.75 to 1.00: sub-Mycenaean pottery RB III B - Iron I A

- Pt 71, hall to the north: " " "

- Pts 69-70: " " "

- Pt 130: many "red on black" "red on red" "milk bowl" XVe c. of good quality bichrome sherd (kept) "base ring" early RB I cream sherd with red decoration in the style of MB III (kept)

- Pt 139: "base ring" XVe - XIVe c. 1 "bucchero" sherd 2 "milk bowl" sherds 2 Mycenaean fragments XIVe - XIIIe c. (kept)

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

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