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 81 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 81 of 104

41 [handwritten: 41 struck through, handwritten top right]

128

Layer 1 bis: 75-70 cm: to the North, white floor. Layer 1: 70-0 cm: grey earth.

Material - Layer 7: Fairly abundant pottery MB III-LB I: "red on black"; €red on red"; large jugs with spout; cup with brown-red decoration of plain bands framing a cross-hatched band; sherds with black or red slip; handles with rectangular profile.

Layers 6, 5, 4: Rare pottery LB II-LB III first phase: Mycenaean sherds; "milk bowl" bowls; pithos (Pt 29) in fine, well-smoothed pottery, with inside which were found a basalt pestle and a blue paste scarab.

Layers 3: Abundant pottery Iron I initial phase: cups with flaring rim and red decoration of broad wavy bands [handwritten: ʃ] [handwritten: (1)] cups with parallel red or black decoration; bowl with convex rim; degenerate "bucchero"; (1) primitive "wavy lines" decoration on forms close to the Mycenaean; [handwritten: 7 bracket and mark in red] fragment of head and body of bull figurine in earth [handwritten: cuite, marginal] bronze javelin point (Pt 19) in the S.W. corner, at 75 cm depth; basalt dish with three feet.

Layers 2 bis and 2: Abundant pottery Iron I intermediate phase: bowls with thin wall, strongly flaring rim and a wavy band at the shoulder; conical base; large "wavy lines" bowls; "bucchero" of good quality; cups with very elongated and narrow handles. late "base ring ware" bowls; flask neck.

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

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