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 22 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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Sounding XVIII -

Stratigraphy - 90 cm to the North, 20 cm to the south: virgin soil, rock. 90-0 cm: grey earth.

Material - Pottery very rare and not very characteristic; neck of a multicoloured glass flask; loom weight of fired clay, probably Iron I.

SOUNDING XIX - 100 cm: to the West, virgin soil, rock. 100-10 cm: brown earth. Pottery rare and not characteristic. In the centre, a N.-S. channel cut into the rock, rising towards the East; in the N.E. corner, at a depth of 10 cm, well-built walls and not excavated. 10-0 cm: grey earth. Sherds rare and mixed.

SOUNDING XX -

Stratigraphy - 110 cm: virgin soil, clay. Layer 6: 110-90 cm: greenish clayey earth. Layer 5: 90-80 cm: floor. Layer 4: 80-70 cm: ashes in the S.E. part. Layer 3: 70-40 cm: reddish-brown earth; Layer 2: 40-30 cm: floor, divided by walls; in the middle of the trench, bread oven with walls of fired clay (Pl 1). Layer 1: 30-0 cm: greyish earth.

Material - Layer 6: Sherds RB III rare: "red on black"; "red on red"; sherds with dark red decoration of wavy lines framed by parallel horizontal lines.

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

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