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 12 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 12 of 68

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 (Pl 17): whole fired loom-weight with incised sign; fragment of limestone mould .

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

Layer 2: Abundant pottery Per I initial phase: carinated bowls with horizontal decoration and dotted brown on the rim; cups with unpierced 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 (Pl 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 fired clay; in bronze: adze (Pl 13) at 40 cm, arrowhead (Pl 14) at 70 cm, washer associated with a fragment of openwork cylinder and a stem (Pl 18) at 60 cm, 2 spatulas and 1 ivory needle: 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 Per 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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