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 59 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 59 of 104

Stamp: 30 — handwritten top right, struck-through number above it: 4̶8̶

Handwritten top right: 117

SOUNDING XVIII -

Stratigraphy - 90 cm to the North, 20 cm to the South: virgin floor, rock. 90-0 cm: grey earth.

Material - Pottery very rare and little characteristic; neck of a multicoloured glass flask; loom weight in baked earth, probably Iron I.

SOUNDING XIX -

100 cm: to the West, virgin floor, rock. 100-10 cm: brown earth. Pottery rare and non-characteristic. In the centre, North-South channel cut into the rock, which rises towards the East; in the N.E. corner, at 10 cm depth, well-built well, not excavated. 10-0 cm: grey earth. Sherds rare and mixed.

SOUNDING XX -

Stratigraphy - 110 cm: virgin floor, clay. Layer 6: 110-90 cm: greenish clayey earth. Layer 5: 90-80 cm: floor. Layer 4: 80-70 cm: ashes in the S.E. part. Layer 3: 70-40 cm: reddish-brown earth; Layer 2: 40-30 cm: floor, divided by walls; in the middle of the trench, bread oven with walls of baked clay (Pt 7). Layer 1: 30-0 cm: greyish earth.

Material - Layer 6: MB III sherds rare: "red on black"; "red on red"; sherds with dark red decoration of wavy lines framed by parallel horizontal lines.

Figure: handwritten red numerals "2" beside the Sondage XIX entry and beside the Couche 6 entry; small diagonal pencil stroke at bottom of page

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

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