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 109 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 60Scan 109 of 192

20.45(continued)Surface with fairly numerous small holes, burst. Made by hand in four parts. Wall of the body of very irregular thickness. Exterior well smoothed. Neck scraped vertically. Slip very thin, carefully applied over the whole exterior of the vessel and on the interior of the rim, generally horizontally. Matt. Blackish to grey-brown. Shape: base small, ring-shaped, flaring, with profile curved. Body ovoid to piriform. Neck roughly cylindrical, with rim abruptly flaring. Rim moulded. Handle with elongated oval section, attached as on 20.45 (better levelled on the inside of the neck). Axis of the vessel slightly inclined towards the back. Decoration in whitish paint. Two horizontal lines at the level of the handle attachment on the neck. On the body, vertical groups of two and three parallel lines.

Reconstituted. Very incomplete (body).

Height: 24 cm - Diam. base: 6,64 cm (bottom) to 4,90 cm (top) Diam. max. body: 11,95 cm - Diam. neck: 5,47 (bottom) to 5,48 (top) Height neck: 11,85 cm - Diam. rim: 8,31 cm Section handle: 1,33 × 0,73 cm (at top) - Thickness wall: 0,24 cm (near base) / 0,30 to 0,68 cm (body) / 0,40 cm (neck, bottom) / 0,30 cm (neck, top) - Capacity Capacity: 0,950 l.

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

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