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 25 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 25 of 68

Layer 3: 70-60 cm: burials made of a framing of stones around each skeleton; 1 child and 2 adults, lying on the back, the head to the west. Layer 2: 60-25 cm: brown earth with white particles. Layer 1: 25-0 cm: over the whole excavated surface, grey earth; this lies to the South on virgin clay.

Material -

Layer 6: Rare and worn sherds RB_I-II: "milk bowl"; jugs and bowls "base ring ware", thick and pinched black lustrous sherd of "bilbil"; fragments of carinated vessel in grey pottery; bowl with white slip; handle in fine ware with black painted decoration.

Layer 5: Iron I sherds: jug handle with double ridge or figure-8 profile; carinated bowls with red painted decoration; sherds of late "bucchero".

Layer 4: Hellenistic sherds_(?): fragment of terracotta statuette; cups in soft yellowish pottery with wide rim.

Layer 3: Iron I objects_north of the tombs (Pt 21): seal in haematite and spindle whorl in steatite.

Medieval bowl_placed on one of the skeletons, in pottery glazed with Cypriot Orientalising decoration of the 14th c.

Layer 2: Mixed pottery: rim of carinated bowl, probably Hellenistic; fragment of lamp in red pottery, probably Roman; fragment of lamp in whitish pottery and fluted sherds, probably of Byzantine date, glazed medieval sherd of the 14th c.

Layer 1: Rare and mixed pottery.

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

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