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 9 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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… large storage jar of the Iron Age (Pt. 63), a bust of rather crude female figurine in brown terracotta (Pt. 68), at 0,60m and a bow fibula, in bronze.

The middle layer, from 0,60 to 1,10 m., belongs to the Late Bronze IDI, with fairly abundant pottery: "milk bowl", "base - ring", hand-made pottery, Mycenaean sherds with lines concentric in red or glossy black. There is perhaps a floor at 0,80m; there is certainly one at 1,10m made of white lime and gravel. In the ashes covering it appeared an ivory disc with two incised lines on the edge (Pt. 69), a twisted arrowhead and a bronze pin (Pt. 76), and a grey steatite cylinder, very worn (Pt. 78).

Below this floor, the lower layer is represented by a rock cavity, filled with sherds of the end of the Middle Bronze (Pt. 81), descending to a depth of 1,60m: "red on black", "red on red", black decoration on light ground, jars with bands in relief, handles of rectangular profile.

←3/ Corridor to the West of the area of Pt 63. It is a construction made of two parallel walls North-South, 2,50 m. wide. It has two floors, at 0,50 and at 0.85m.

On the upper floor, traces of a workshop of the Iron I: clay tuyères (Pt. 66), base of a jug "bucchero ", vessel with short cylindrical spout. The floor itself is white, with a pit 50 cm deep, full of ashes and blocks of burnt earth.

On the lower floor, in soft ashy earth, one finds sherds of the final Late Bronze: painted pottery in Cypro-Mycenaean style, "milk bowl". The level of the floor varies from 0,85 in the South to 1,20m in the North, where one recovered a spearhead of socket and strong midrib, in bronze (Pt. 42).

←4/ Courtyard to the West of Pt.42. On a fine paving at 1 m., there was pottery of the Late Bronze III II: Mycenaean, local imitation of Mycenaean with series of black chevrons on green ground (Pt.24), "milk bowl", with rare sherds "red on red".

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

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