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 33 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 33 of 68

Layer 5: bronze pin, at a depth of 100 cm. Layers 4 and 3: no characteristic material.

Layers 2 and 1: Abundant pottery of Early and Middle Iron I: ladle fragment; late "base ring ware" bowl; hemispherical cup with small horizontal handle; fragment of small basket handle.

Conclusions - The first floor with the channel were established in the Mycenaean period, then used until the end of the Late Bronze. After 1200 B.C., construction of the E.-W. wall and series of floors of the beginning of the Iron Age.

SOUNDING XXXVI -

Stratigraphy- To the south of the sounding: [struck-through text: illegible] 230-210 cm: virgin floor, rock. Layer 6: 230-200 cm: compact brown earth. Layer 5: 200-180 cm: grey ashy clayey earth, with stones. Layer 4 bis: 180 cm: thin bed of ash and bones. Layer 4: 180-140 cm: clay and ash. Layer 3 bis: 140 cm: thin bed of burnt red earth in places. Layer 3: 140-90 cm: ashy earth; numerous charcoal; top of an E.-W. wall running along the road, N.-S. wall, to the East of which lie 2 jugs (Pt 38), rim at 90 cm, base at 120 cm. To the north: 115 cm: white floor; 115-90 cm: ashy earth. Layer 2: 90-40 cm: in the centre of the sounding, E.-W. road; on either side, brown earth with stones. Layer 1: 40-0 cm: over the whole surface, grey earth.

Material - Layer 6: a/ Pottery MB III or LB I: "red on black"; "red on red"; degenerate "red on black"; carinated cups in light pottery; cooking pots with handle in the extension of the rim; sherds with lustrous coating (spout).

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

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