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 35 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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b/ Pottery RB_I: bowls "base ring ware" very fine or thick; "milk bowl".

Layer 5: Pottery RB_II-RB_III_first phase: Mycenaean sherds with red lustrous decoration, one with micaceous fabric; associated fine pottery; rim of bowl "milk bowl"; cylindrical spindle whorl in fine pottery.

Layer 4: Pottery RB_III_second_phase: sherd with brown spiral decoration "close style"; bowls with flaring rim and "close style" decoration in black or brown; carinated bowls with double line in brown paint; "bucchero"; flask neck.

Layer 3: Pottery Iron I initial phase: large bowls with flaring rim and decoration of red parallel lines; large bowl with rim, with fine red chevrons on the rim; "bucchero"; 2 common jugs (Pt 38); limestone polisher.

Layer 2: Pottery Iron I intermediate and final: evolved "wavy lines" bowls; degenerate "bucchero"; degenerate or late "base ring ware".

Layer 1: Mixed surface pottery: worn Mycenaean sherds; fragment of quadruped figurine.

Conclusions - This trench contains a layer where sherds of the end of the Middle Bronze and the beginning of the Late Bronze are mixed, a Mycenaean layer, a floor and a layer of the end of the Late Bronze, a floor and a thick layer of the beginning of the Iron Age and a layer of the end of Iron I; the quarter seems to have been inhabited without interruption.

SOUNDING XXXVII -

Stratigraphy - Beyond 60 cm, over almost the whole surface, crossroads: grey cement with stones and small sherds. Layer 3: at the corners, cavities filled with brown earth. Layer 2: 60-20 cm: reddish earth. Layer 1: 20-0 cm: grey earth.

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

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