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 31 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 XXXI -

Stratigraphy - Layer 2: beyond 50 cm, reddish earth, except in the centre where there is a looted tomb. Mixed pottery. Layer 1 bis: 50-30 cm: numerous stones in places; in the middle of these, small jug overturned (Pt 16) of common Iron I pottery. Layer 1: 30-0 cm: grey earth. Pottery rare and mixed. Conclusions - Remains of a Late Bronze tomb and of an Iron I dwelling.

SOUNDING XXXV -

Stratigraphy - Layer 7: 180-150 cm: N-S channel ending in a puisard and filled with greenish clayey earth; paving at the base. Layer 6 bis: 150 cm: white floor resting on the virgin rock floor. Layer 6: 150-112 cm: grey ashes., [handwritten: only north of a wall] North of a very massive E-W wall: Layer 5: 112-90 cm: burnt brown-red earth. Layer 4: 90-75 cm: floors of white material and burnt earth. Layer 3: 75-70 cm: burnt red earth. Layer 2: 70-20 cm north of the wall, 112-20 cm south of the wall: brown earth. Layer 1: greyish earth.

Material - Layer 7: Sherds LB_III_first_phase isolated_on_the rock: rare Mycenaean sherds in the first floor.

Layer 6: Abundant pottery LB_III_second_phase: krater with dark wine-brown decoration of spirals, chevrons, sawtooth and checkerboard "clowe style"; jar with decoration of parallel lines, moiré or red; strainer-spout with white slip and dark red decoration; animal figurine with white slip and red decoration. carinated bowls and bowls with flaring rim, with decoration of double lines in red paint on the inside; loom weight of fired clay.

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

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