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 53 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 53 of 104

Handwritten: 114

Handwritten: 27

Conclusions -

Above a Mycenaean layer, one meets a rich level of the beginning of the Iron Age, with to the N.E. a floor and a substantial wall, e to the S.W. a tomb. There are, no doubt, on the surface, remains of the end of Iron I.

[handwritten: X] SOUNDING XI - [handwritten: cap. milieu]

Stratigraphy - Layer 4: Pt.12: well dug in the northern part, beyond 85 cm. Elsewhere, at 85 cm, virgin clayey floor. Layer 3: 85-60 cm: ashes and charcoal. Layer 2: 60-30 cm: floor of small gravel. Layer 1: 30-0 cm: grey earth.

Material - Layer 4 (Pt. 12): _Sherds RB_II+RB_III_first_phase_:

Handwritten: 2

Mycenaean krater with fish-scale decoration; "milk bowl"; sherds painted with brown decoration; miniature jug with pointed base.

Layer 3: _Pottery RB_III_second_phase_: fine sherds with decoration of horizontal parallel lines in

Handwritten: 2

red or brown; carinated cups.

Layer 2: _Rare pottery_Iron_I_initial phase_: fragment of "ladle";

Handwritten: 2

yellowish painted sherd with red cross-hatched decoration.

Layer 1: Pottery Iron I initial phase: bowl with flaring rim and double line painted on the inside of the rim late "bucchero"; bowl with convex rim;

Handwritten: 2

bowl with flattened rim with grooves on its outside.

Conclusions - A settlement with a well of the fine Mycenaean period is succeeded by a layer of the end of Late Bronze, with traces of hearths or of firedestruction, then a floor and the corresponding use layer of the very beginning of the Iron Age; there thus does not seem to have been any interruption in the occupation of this sector.

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

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