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 47 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 47 of 68

Layer 2: 70-60 cm: floor of compacted earth. Layer 1: 60-0 cm: brown earth with, at 10 or 20 cm, the top of the walls.

(3) Elsewhere, the excavation was stopped at the top of layer 2.

Material - Layer 6: Isolated sherds MB III or LB I on the rock: spout of a jug with brown glaze; handle of a bowl with red glaze.

Layers 5 and 4: Rare pottery of Iron I intermediate phase: (1) Pt 30: steatite seal; fragment of bone stylus. (2) Pt 42: large bowl "wavy lines" with very flaring rim; cup with bright red decoration: inside, a sinuous band and horizontal bands,- inside, double band at the rim, spiral at the base; narrow foot; jars of "Canaanite" type with high shoulder and ogival base; jar handle with incised +; bronze rod; fragment of iron tool.

Layer 3 (c): Very abundant pottery of Iron I intermediate phase: bowls with primitive "wavy lines" decoration, very fine; hemispherical cups with garland decoration; "bucchero" sherds of good workmanship; fragment of loutrophoros; fragment of late stirrup vase; jars of "Canaanite" type, several of them with handles with incised signs and one handle with seal impression; in bronze: plaque with engraved signs; arrowhead; three buttons; engraved ivory baton; spindle whorl of terracotta; fragment of stone dish.

Layer 3 (b): very little pottery.

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

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