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 65 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.

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SOUNDING XLVII -

Stratigraphy - Layer 2: 70-50 cm: traces of floor; in places, greenish earth or ashes. Layer 1: 50-0 cm: brown earth.

Material - Pottery not abundant, Iron I final phase: bowls "wavy lines" standard type; tessohs "bucchero".

SOUNDING XLVIII -

Stratigraphy - [handwritten: 100]Layer 3: 100 cm: traces of floor. Layer 2: 100-60 cm: at the centre of the trench, junction of the two streets East-West; to the North, straight East-West wall; to the South, wall oblique to the East, then taking the direction East-West. On either side of the street and in the halls beyond the walls, grey earth. Layer 1: 60-0 cm: brown earth.

Material - Layers 3 and 2: Iron I intermediate pottery: jug with small cylindrical spout and vertical brown decoration at 90 cm (Pt 39); "bucchero" of good workmanship.

Layer 1: Fairly abundant pottery, Iron I final: bowls "wavy lines" standard; degenerate "bucchero"; fragment of bovid figurine in terracotta; five sling bullets in terracotta; cup in steatite; spindle whorl in steatite; stone loom weight; engraved bone.

Conclusions - In this sounding, as in the previous one, the excavation reached only the end of Iron I; however the last sounding provided valuable topographic indications [handwritten: and] a [handwritten: ...] and a striking confirmation of the predictions obtained thanks to the measurements of magnetic anomalies.

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