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 75 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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Finds - Layer 3: Rare and not very characteristic pottery; stone cylinder (Pt 23) and fragment of earring of bronze, in the S.E. corner, at 70 cm; pendant in carnelian or amber (Pt 24) in the N.W. corner, at 60 cm.

Layer 2: Rare pottery_Iron_I: bowls "wavy lines"; "bucchero"; projection in the form of an animal's head; loom weight of weaver.

Conclusion - Although in the corners, installations, walls and hearths, continue beneath the edge of the roads, only the Iron Age is well attested.

SOUNDING XXXVIII -

Stratigraphy - To the South: 300 cm: virgin floor, rock. Layer 7: 300-250 cm: brown earth, thin in the centre and thickening in a cavity cut into the rock to the South. Layer 6: 250-240 cm: white floor. Layer 5: 240-195 cm: fine brown earth. Layer 4: 195-190 cm: floor of white material and stones. Layer 3: 190-160 cm: to the South, fine greenish earth; to the North, bed of ashes, stones and North-South wall Layer 2: 160-60 cm: in the centre, East-West road; on either side, brown earth with stones coming from collapsed walls. Layer 1: 60-0 cm: greyish earth.

Finds - Layer 7: Sherds MB III: "red on black"; degenerate "red on red"; sherds of light pottery with irregular burnishing ("pattern burnishing")/

Handwritten: 125

Handwritten: 384

Handwritten: diagonal stroke

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

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