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 155 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 83Scan 155 of 192

20.60T. 1907(under street no. 2)Chamber E.Sherds 24 andof zone 52.Ceramic juglet "base ring I/II". Earth fired light grey with surface light brown exterior, fine, hard, sonorous, porous with porosity visible to the naked eye, light. Visible temper little rare, (drawing) black, fine. Surface with small holes very rare, sometimes flaked. Hand-made, in at least five parts. Fairly carefully made. Neck and lower body scraped vertically. Handle attached to shoulder by hole. Thin slip applied carefully, with brush, horizontally, over the whole exterior and on the interior of the rim. Worn in places. Brown over the whole vessel, black-brown on the back of the shoulder and neck and on the handle. Lustrous. Shape: conical base with curved profile, pear-shaped body stocky neck narrowing from bottom to top. Groove at the base of the neck: mark of the joining of the two parts. Rim of shape similar to that of the base. Handle with section in a very thick rectangle, with rounded sides, from the top of the neck to the bottom of the shoulder. Axis of the vessel almost vertical. Decoration: two very vigorous parallel ridges, of inclined from left to right, around the neck at the attachment of the handle.

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

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