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 169 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 90Scan 169 of 192

20.65(continued)Surface pitted, flaked, sparse. Hand-made, careful, in six parts probably. Neck scraped vertically, body well smoothed. Body seems to have étée closed at top by a disc of added clay on which is fixed the neck.

Grey-black slip, careful, applied with brush, horizontally, over the whole exterior. Very thin. Well burnished.

Shape: small conical creuse base with slightly concave profile, high. Body pear-shaped. Neck narrowing from bottom to top. Flat handle, applied towards the top of the neck and inserted through the lower shoulder. Funnel-shaped conical rim, very poorly preserved.

Decoration: two ridges around the neck at the attachment of the handle, close together.

Restored. Lower-upper join of body, rim, handle, incomplete.

Height preserved: 14,03 cm - Diam. base: 3,13 (bottom) to 1,42 (top) Height base: 1,98 - Max. diam. body: 6,73 cm Diam neck: 2,40 (bottom) to 1,57 cm (top) - Height neck (without rim): 5,58. Handle section: 1,43 1,35 × 0,64 cm - Wall thickness: 0,24 (shoulder). Capacity: 0,12 l -

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

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