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 26 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 26 of 68

Layer 1: Rare and mixed pottery.

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

Layer 2: Mixed pottery:

medieval bowl placed on one of the skeletons, in ceramic glazed with Cypriot Orientalizing decoration of the 14th c.

Layer 3: Objects of the Per I north of the tombs (pl 21): hematite dish and steatite spindle whorl.

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

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

Layer 6: Rare sherds and vessels KB I-II: "milk bowl"; jugs and bola "base ring ware", égpis and thin black lustrous sherd of "bilbil"; fragments of scattered vessel in grey pottery; bowl with white convex; handle in fine ceramic with black painted decoration.

Material -

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

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

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