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 55 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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… near the cemented area, pithos set on the edge and without its base; in the centre, large cistern going down to the rock at 310 cm depth and filled with stones and loose earth (Pt 32). Layer 1: 60-0 cm: reddish brown earth with white particles.

Material - Layer 12: _Sherds MB_III_and RB_I_: "red on black", including a jug rim with spout; "red on red"; early "base ring ware"; "milk bowl"; stone grinder; fragment of bronze.

Layers 10 and 11: _Sherds RB_II_: Mycenaean sherds with glossy painted decoration; white pottery trimmed with a knife; fine "base ring ware"; developed "milk bowl".

Layers 9 and 8: _Sherds RB_III_first phase_: Mycenaean sherds, some of local manufacture.

Layers 7 and 6: _Sherds RB_III_second_phase_: sherds with final Mycenaean or "close style" decoration; bowls with flaring rim, often carinated, with double line in red inside the rim; in white pottery.

Layers 5 and 4: Iron I initial phase pottery: krater in greenish pottery with careless brown decoration; carinated bowl with horizontal red parallel decoration; fragment of rhyton; small basket handle with black painted decoration; bowls with flaring rim and an inner red band.

Layer 3: Iron I initial phase pottery: strainer spout with brown decoration; late "bucchero"; bowl with flattened rim and horizontal grooves on the outside of the rim.

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

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