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 63 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 63 of 104

Stamp: 119

Handwritten: 32

Layer 3: 70-60 cm: burials made of a frame of stones around each skeleton; 1 child and 2 adults, laid on the back, the head to the west. Layer 2: 60-25 cm: brown earth with white particles. Layer 1: 25-0 cm: over the whole flaked surface, grey earth; this one lies to the South on virgin clay.

Material -

Layer 6: Rare and worn sherds RB I-II: "milk bowl"; jugs and bowls "base ring ware", thick and pinched

Handwritten: 2

black lustrous sherd of "bilbil"; fragments of carinated vessel in grey pottery; bowl with white coating; handle in fine ware with black painted decoration.

Layer 5: Iron I sherds: jug handle with double ridge or with profile eh 8;

Handwritten: 2

carinated bowls with red painted decoration; sherds of late "bucchero".

Layer 4: Hellenistic sherds(?): fragment of terracotta statuette;

Handwritten: 2

cups in soft yellowish pottery with wide rim.

Layer 3: Iron I objects north of the tombs (Pt 21): seal in haematite and spindle whorl in steatite.

Handwritten: 2

Medieval bowl placed on one of the skeletons, in pottery glazed with Cypriot Orientalizing decoration of the 14th c.

Layer 2: Mixed pottery: rim of carinated bowl, probably Hellenistic;

Handwritten: 2

fragment of lamp in red pottery, probably Roman; fragment of lamp in whitish pottery and fluted sherds, probably of Byzantine date, medieval glazed sherd of the 14th c.

Layer 1: Rare and mixed pottery.

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

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