Manuscript·34 CDF art. 152-1·1969

Enkomi 1969 Inventory IH. de Contenson

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 105 of manuscript 34 CDF art. 152-1 (Enkomi 1969 Inventory I), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 152-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 58Scan 105 of 192

20.44Jug in "base ring II" ware. EarthT. 1907
fired grey, with outer surface(under street no. 2)
light brown. Fine, very hard, ringing,East chamber.
finely porous. TemperSherds 96, 30,
visible very rare, fine (white grainsfrom quarter NW and
and red). Surface: rare small holes,zone 52.
rarely burst. Blister
in the lower part of the body.

Drawing: drawing of a jug with painted decoration on neck and body

Hand-made in four parts. Handle attached through a perforated wall in the shoulder and the neck (where badly smoothed afterwards, with a large depression). Neck scraped verticallyon the inside; smoothed on the outside like the rest of the vessel, but irregular in shape. Very thin slip rather carelessly applied with a brush over the whole exterior and on the inside of the rim, horizontally on the body and the rim, vertically on the neck. Slight lustre where it is not worn. Grey-black on the back and left of the vessel, brown-yellow on the front and right. Shape: flaring base, with curved profile and rim moulded. Ovoid body. Irregular neck, slightly widening from bottom to top, flaring rim with moulded lip. Handle with oblong section, from the lower part of the upper third of the neck to the shoulder. Axis of the vessel slightly tilted

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

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