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 58 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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Section 3: 65-60 cm: floor of hard grey earth, with lime and ash. Section 4: 90-65 cm: reddish-brown earth. Section 5: 120-90 cm: floors of black ash and brick-red burnt earth. Section 6: 150-120 cm: compact brown earth. Section 7: 180-150 cm: greenish earth with ash layers. Section 8: 190-180 cm: floor of brick-red burnt earth. 190 cm: virgin soil, in places the rock, clayey and with stones filling hollows in it.

Stratigraphy –

SOUNDING XIV –

One thus finds there a true summary of the history of Enkomi. Level A: Sections 3 to 1: Iron Age I, with architecture, hearths and industrial installation. a floor, high, of the beginning of Iron I. Level B: Sections 7 to 4: Transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age: a floor of the second phase of Late Bronze III, associated with a new architecture and a new bread oven. – a floor of the beginning of Late Bronze III. Level C: Sections 11 to 8: Mycenaean period: a floor of Late Bronze II linked to an architectural phase, with a bread oven. – Level D: Section 12: only of the end of Middle Bronze and the beginning of Late Bronze. The complex history traced by sounding XIII summarises it as follows:

Conclusions –

pestle and stone weight. rim of pithos with incised sign, found inside the preceding one; large hemispherical pithos (Pt 31); cylindrical bowl with concave base and horizontal bichrome decoration in red and black; degenerate "bucchero"; large bola "wavy lines" with black decoration; degenerate carinated bowl "base ring ware"; Sections 2 and 1: Abundant pottery, Ter I intermediate and final:

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

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