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 53 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 32Scan 53 of 192

20.28T. 1907(under ment 2)Chambre Est"Milk bowl" in terracotta, red brick towards the face outer, brownish (drawing) towards the inner face. Visible grit, sparse , white and blackish (1/2 mm on average). Terracotta hard, dense, sonorous, with some elongated cavities. Slip fairly thick (# 0,2 mm), pinkish white to greyish and grey (exterior base), with a demarcation line barely visible at the top of the lower third, pos applied with brush (?). White Slip II Shape with ovoid profile, with diameter maximum a few centimetres below the rim. Diameter smaller along the axis of the handle than in the perpendicular axis. Rim barely lowered along the axis of the handle. Section asymmetrical. Large ogival handle, with outer sides less straight than in 20.27, and small horns at the ends somewhat less well detached. Decoration in dark brown paint, fairly careful. Dots just below the rim, then a horizontal cross-hatched band from which alternately descend quatre trois vertical motifs: 1) middle band hatched horizon-

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

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