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 44 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 44 of 68

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

Material -

Layer 7: Pottery rather abundant MB III-RB I: "red on black"; "red on red"; large bowls with spout; cup with brown-red decoration of plain bands framing a cross-hatched band; cups with black or red coating; handles with rectangular profile.

Layers 6, 5, 4: Pottery rare RB II-RB III first phase: sherds Mycenaean; bowls "milk bowl"; pithos (Pt 29) in fine, 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 red or black decoration; bowl with convex rim; degenerate "bucchero"; (1) primitive "wavy lines" decoration on shapes close to Mycenaean; fragment of head and body of a bull figurine in terracotta bronze javelin point (Pt 19) in the S.W. corner, at depth of 75 cm; 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 bowls with "wavy lines"; "bucchero" of good quality; cup 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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