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 99 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 28Scan 99 of 240

Trench XXXVI - (see p. 90) 0-40 cm: grey earth (layer 1 40-90 cm: brown earth (layer 2 90-140 cm: ashes (layer 3

Layers 1 and 2: coarse pottery Iron Age (not kept) Layer 3: north-south wall; to the east of this wall, Pt 38: two jugs standing, complete, rim at 90 cm, base at 120 cm - with, many coarse sherds fragments of fine "wavy lines" bowls, early Iron I - a worked stone -

140 cm: in places, thin bed of red burnt earth - 140-180 cm: clay and ashes (layer 4 sub-Mycenaean pottery, early Iron I, well represented, or end of LB III - 180 cm: thin bed of ashes and bones layer 4 is therefore bounded by two floors, so little consistent that one cannot distinguish them except in the sections -

180-200 cm: grey clayey and ashy earth (layer 5 with more abundant stones: Mycenaean pottery LB II - III 200-230 cm: compact brown earth (layer 6 "red on black" pottery, with red slip etc, MB III or LB I -

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

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