Manuscript·34 CDF art. 152-3·1969

Enkomi 1969 Inventory continued (III)H. de Contenson

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 55 of manuscript 34 CDF art. 152-3 (Enkomi 1969 Inventory continued (III)), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 152-3, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 26Scan 55 of 208

20.179Jug in white painted pottery.T. 1907
Light buff fired clay,(under street no. 2)
cream, fine, soft, rather sparseEast Chamber
dense, very porous, appearancesherds 87, 121,
frit-like. Temper rare:from zone 52
very fine black grains. Surface withand quarter NE.
rare burst holes. (drawing)
Technique: as the juglets in whitish pottery
whitish, but well smoothed: no trace of scraping
nor manufacturing striations.
Shape: base barely convex. Join base-
body angular. Biconical body with slightly
curved profiles and angular shoulder. Neck wide at
roughly cylindrical. Rim flaring then upright (drawing).
Handle in arc of circle, attached at mid-shoulder,
section rectangular with curved sides, thin,
surmounted by a horned thumb-rest inclined towards
the back. Axis of the vessel barely inclined towards
the back.
Decoration in brownish black paint, matt, rather
thin, liable to flake. Three bands
narrow horiz. on the face of the thumb-rest. Bands
lateral on the handle and wavy band on its
back. Narrow band on exterior of rim.

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

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