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 49 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 49 of 104

b/ Pottery abundant _LB_II-LB_III_first_phase_: Mycenaean sherds with lustrous paint; evolved "milk bowl"; krater with dark red decoration; carinated cups in fine light pottery; miniature jug (Pt 17); terracotta loom weight with incised sign; fragment of limestone mould .

Layer 3: Pottery abundant _LB_III_second_phase_: kraters with Late Mycenaean decoration or "close style"; bowls and cups in fine white pottery with bright red decoration ; ring bases with spiral decoration in red on the inside; bronze rod.

Handwritten: 2 ß 5

Layer 2: Pottery abundant _Iron_I_initial_phase_: carinated bowls with horizontal and dotted decoration on the rim in brown; cups with unpierced horizontal lug handle; bowls with grooves incised on the outside of the rim, which is flattened degenerate "base ring" bowl; degenerate "bucchero" sherds; bowls of the early "wavy lines" type with simple decoration; strainer spout decorated with black paint; 2 common pottery jugs (Pt 20), one upright between 100 and 120 cm, the other lying between 130 and 150 cm; fragment of animal head, 3 loom weights and 1 spindle whorl in earth [handwritten: baked]; in bronze: adze (Pt 13) at 40 cm, arrowhead (Pt 14) at 70 cm, spoked disc associated with a fragment of cylinder openwork and a rod (Pt 18) at 60 cm, 2 spatulae and 1 needle; in ivory: ball and spindle whorl; in stone: sandstone pestle, granite pestle, basalt weight, steatite bead or loom weight, sandstone whetstone.

Handwritten: 2 ß 5

Layer 1: a/ Pottery _of_Iron_I_final_: evolved-type "wavy lines" bowls; degenerate "bucchero".

b/ _Medieval_sherd_of_the_XIII°-XIV° c._on_surface_: glazed sherd with Cypriot Orientalizing decoration.

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

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