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 175 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 93Scan 175 of 192

20.68(continued)blackish, fine. Surface with fairly numerous holes, fairly often flaked. Surface very damaged. Technique: as 20.62, very careful. Shape: the base, applied, has disappeared, there remains the trace, annular, wide. Body squat, piriform with lower part little sloping. Neck narrowing from bottom upwards (no groove at its base). Handle plate attached at bottom of the shoulder. Decoration in applied ridge, most often detached and identifiable only by the traces of removal: two symmetrical volutes, with rolled end, on the front of the body. Grey to black slip, carefully applied with brush, horizontally, over all the preserved exterior. Well burnished. Little worn where surface not flaked.

Restored. Almost all the neck and almost all the handle, part of the body.

Height preserved: 7,56 cm. Diam. base trace: 3,55 cm. Max. diam. body: 6,75 cm - Diam. neck preserved: 2,39 base cm. Handle section (towards base): 1,33 × 0,64 - Wall thickness: 0,29 (near - handle Capacity > 0,11 l. -

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

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