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 95 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 26Scan 95 of 240

Trench XLV = (see p. 14) 250 to 260: clayey earth greyish greenish = layer 7 pottery LB I or MB III: "red on black", dark decoration on light ground, "base ring" primitive "milk bowl" - 250, to the north: bone awl: Pt 33 - 260: to the north and south, rock, virgin soil - Work finished -

Trench XLIV - (see p. 13) 120 to 150 cm: compact brown earth: layer 6 150 to 180 cm: greenish earth, with beds of ash: layer 7 180: spindle whorl in bone or ivory: Pt 34 - 180 to 190 cm: burnt brick-red earth primitive floor: layer 8 190 cm: virgin soil, in places the rock, in places clay and stones filling the hollows of the rock -

Pottery layers 6 and 7: Iron Age, coarse sherds and not very characteristic (not kept) - layer 8: no pottery Work finished -

Trench XXXVII - (see §8) In places, installations and walls are encountered hearths under the road, which is very thin - for example at the SE corner.

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

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