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 9 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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Over the whole surface: 50 cm: virgin soil. 50-30 cm: floor of white limestone. Layer 1: 30-0 cm: greyish earth.

Material - Layer 3 (Pt 2): Abundant pottery M.B. III: "red on black"; "red on red"; sherds with red slip painted sherds of wavy lines framed by bands horizontal straight lines; pithoi with relief decoration filled with incisions.

Layer 2: sterile.

Layer 1: sherds rare and not very characteristic, difficult to date.

Conclusions - ABOVE a pocket, where remains of the Middle Bronze have survived, precarious installation probably of Iron I.

SOUNDING VI -

Stratigraphy - 130 cm: pockets dug into the virgin soil, one of which (Pt 17) contains a jar, inside which was a small jug. 120 cm: virgin soil, rock. Layer 4: 120-110 cm: white floor. Layer 3: 110-100 cm: thin ashy layer in the North and centre, reddish in the South, with in the S.W., between 160 and 100 cm, a hole filled with stones (Pt 20). Layer 2: 100-30 cm: in the North and centre, reddish earth with walls of a rectangular hall and adjacent halls; in the South, E.W. street: grey earth with stones, animal bones and sherds. Layer 1; 30-0 cm: grey earth.

Material - Layer 4: a/ R.B. I sherds in the cavities of the virgin soil: "base ring ware"; sherds with lustrous black slip; brown decoration of wavy lines framed by bands horizontal; handles of rectangular section and dark slip.

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

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