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 15 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.

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[handwritten: ←] 2/ Room to the West of Pt.71. It is a small hall 1,50[handwritten: m] wide, open towards the South. On a paving situated at 70 cm. depth, lay painted sherds of Late Bronze III-II (Pt. 90), among which fragments of a 14th c. krater, with vertical handles at the shoulder, flattened rim and fish-scale decoration.

[handwritten: ←] 3/ Halls to the West of the paving. Four rooms of irregular shape form a block and certainly belong to the same housing unit. Only the North-East one has yielded a few objects, distributed in two main layers.

The upper layer corresponds to Iron I and contains a late "bucchero" jug, at 0,25 m. depth (Pt. 62).

The lower layer, between 0,60 and 0,80[handwritten: m], depth at which xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx contains a mixture: Iron-Age pottery at the beginning of the Iron is still abundant: carinated bowls, bowls with concentric circle decoration, "bucchero"; Late Bronze III is rare: "milk bowl", "base ring", Cypro-Mycenaean, as well as two bowls with horned lugs, one with pierced and carinated lug, the other with unpierced lug and brown linear decoration; Middle Bronze III is well represented especially in the South part: "red on red", lustrous red, black wavy bands on white ground, handles of rectangular profile, "red on black", jar sherds with relief bands, either a series of pellets, or an indented cordon, or a broad band covered with fine cross-hatched incisions.

At 0,90 m., in the South part, was recovered a kind of bronze spatula Pt. 77). The virgin soil was reached at 1,10[handwritten: m].

[handwritten: ←] 4/ House to the East of the public building. Two North-South walls delimit a house 8 m. wide, of which three rooms, succeeding one another from North to South, have been cleared.

The back room seems to have been damaged by the industrial installation of Pt. 47, which must be later than it; the accumulation of grey ash can be attributed to the activity of this workshop

Handwritten: 95

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

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