Document·34 CDF art. 154·1955–1958

Report on the excavations at Enkomi, 1955–1958Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 101 of document 34 CDF art. 154 (Report on the excavations at Enkomi, 1955–1958), typed in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 154, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 101 of 104

Handwritten: 51 21

Handwritten: 128

Material - Layer 7: Sherds RB_II-RB_III_first phase on the rock: Mycenaean sherds; fragments "milk bowl"; stone pestle.

Layers 6 and 5: Sherds RB_III_second_phase: bowl, white pottery, with flaring rim and double line painted in brown on the inside; cup with very elongated and narrow handle; painted sherd, brown decoration of triangles, dents de sc scie and chevrons.

Layers 4 and 3: Fairly abundant pottery RB_III_second_phase: ladle (Pt 28) placed on the floor; kraters with brown decoration of spirals and bands horizontal parallel "close style"; carinated cups with matt brown decoration on greenish fabric.

Layers 2 and 1: Abundant pottery Iron I initial phase: jug with strainer spout, side handle, red decoration of concentric semicircles, derived from the "close style"; at 80 cm depth, in the centre (Pt 26); jug with small cylindrical spout and dark brown decoration vertical, near the previous one (Pt 26); cup with ring foot, concentric red decoration on the inside and the outside, equal[handwritten: e]ly (Pt 26); iron sickle and another iron tool, at 80 cm, to the North (Pt 27); fragment of bronze arrowhead.

Conclusions - On the rock, Mycenaean layer. Above, two floors of the end of the Late Bronze, with burial and architecture? finally, a floor with architecture of the beginning of the Iron Age I. The transition from Late Bronze to Iron Age is therefore particularly well represented in this sounding, where few periods are attested.

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

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