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 43 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.

Page 43Scan 43 of 68

Layer 1 bis: 75-70 cm: to the North, white floor. Layer 1: 70-0 cm: grey earth.

Material -

Layer 7: Pottery fairly abundant MB III-LB I: "red on black"; "red on red"; large jugs with spout; cup with brown-red decoration of plain bands framing a cross-hatched band; sherds with black or red slip; handles with rectangular profile.

Layers 6, 5, 4: Pottery rare LB II-LB III first phase: Mycenaean sherds; "milk bowl" bowls; pithos (Pt 29) in fine and well-smoothed pottery, with inside which were found a basalt pestle and a scarab in blue paste.

Layer 3: Pottery abundant Iron I initial phase: cups with flaring rim and red decoration of broad wavy bands (1) cups with parallel decoration in red or black; bowl with convex rim; degenerate "bucchero"; (1) primitive "wavy lines" decoration on forms close to the Mycenaean; fragment of head and body of a terracotta bull figurine bronze javelin point (Pt 19) in the S.W. corner, at 75 cm depth; basalt dish with three feet.

Layers 2 bis and 2: Pottery abundant Iron I intermediate phase: bowls with thin wall, strongly flaring rim and a wavy band at the shoulder; conical base; large-sized "wavy lines" bowls; "bucchero" of good quality; cups with very elongated and narrow handles. late "base ring ware" bowls; gourd neck.

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

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