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 61 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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… sherds with thick reddish slip; bone awl (Pt 33) at 250 cm; basalt grinder.

Layers 6 and 5: Abundant pottery RB_II-RB_III: Mycenaean sherds with lustrous decoration; carinated cups and ring bases in fine pottery.

Layers 4 and 3: Fairly rare pottery_Iron I_initial_and intermediate: flaring bowl with spiral decoration in black paint, derived from the "close style"; cups with flattened rim, horizontal lug and grooves on the exterior of the rim;

Layers 2 and 1: Rare pottery, difficult to date, perhaps Iron I final phase: degenerate "bucchero"; sherds with incised decoration and thumb-rest handles.

Conclusions - Four levels can be distinguished, attributable to the following periods: transition from Middle Bronze to Late Bronze, - Mycenaean, - beginning of Iron I, - and perhaps end of Iron I.

SOUNDING XLVI -

Stratigraphy - 210 cm to the North, 190 cm in the centre: virgin floor, clay. Layer 7: 210-190 cm: clayey earth. Layer 6: 190 -180 cm: white floor. Layer 5: 180-140 cm: fine greenish earth; walls of an early architectural phase. Layer 150 cm: to the North, Pt 28: legs of a skeleton. Layer 4: 150-140 cm in the centre; 140-130 cm to the North: } greenish white floor. Layer 3: 130-90 cm: reddish earth. Layer 2: 90-70 cm: compact ashy earth; upper architectural phase. Layer 1: 70-0 cm: brown earth.

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

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