Document·34 CDF art. 155·1958

Report on the soundings carried out in September–October 1958 at EnkomiH. de Contenson

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Typed in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 11 of document 34 CDF art. 155 (Report on the soundings carried out in September–October 1958 at Enkomi), typed in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 155, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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b/ Abundant pottery RB_II-RB_III_first phase: Mycenaean sherds with lustrous paint; evolved "milk bowl"; krater with dark red decoration; carinated cups in fine light pottery; miniature jug (Pt 17); loom weight of terre cuite with incised sign; fragment of limestone mould .

Layer 3: Abundant pottery RB_III_second_phase: kraters with late Mycenaean decoration or "close style"; bowls and soup bowls in fine white pottery with bright red decoration ; ring bases with spiral decoration in red on the inside; bronze stem.

Layer 2: Abundant pottery Iron I initial phase: carinated bowls with horizontal and dotted decoration on the rim in brown; cups with non-perforated horizontal lug handle; bowls with incised grooves on the outside of the rim, which is flattened; degenerate "base ring" bowl; degenerate "bucchero" sherds; "wavy lines" bowls of the early type with simple decoration; strainer spout decorated with black paint; 2 common pottery jugs (Pt 20), one upright between 100 and 120 cm, the other lying between 130 and 150 cm; fragment of animal head, 3 loom weights and 1 spindle whorl in terre cuite; in bronze: adze (Pt 13) at 40 cm, arrowhead (Pt 14) at 70 cm, rouelle associated with a fragment of cylinder pierced and a rod (Pt 18) at 60 cm, 2 spatulas and 1 needle; in ivory: ball and spindle whorl; in stone: sandstone pestle, granite pestle, basalt weight, steatite bead or loom weight, sandstone whetstone.

Layer 1: a/ Pottery of the final Iron I: evolved-type "wavy lines" bowls; degenerate "bucchero".

b/ Medieval sherd of the XIII°-XIV°s. on surface: glazed sherd with Cypriot Orientalising decoration.

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

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