Notebook·34 CDF art. 127·1955–1957

Excavation notebook for the 9th and 10th seasons at EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in French and German. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 186 of notebook 34 CDF art. 127 (Excavation notebook for the 9th and 10th seasons at Enkomi), handwritten in French and German. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 127, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 95Scan 186 of 343

Loose sheet attached at top, upside down, showing verso of a page with ink bleed-through:

A8/A9. Pt 79/70: fragment of bowl « wavy line » and of a sunk jug; A11 - Pt 76: Iron Age pottery: body, handles in ring, base with sunk bottom, decoration of lines concentric black (not preserved) - B1/B2, south half (region pt 71): 2.00 to 2.30: (from white ground to rock): Late Bronze: Mycenaean, Base-ring, painted pottery; Middle Bronze: red on black, common ware. B8, south half: 1.70 to 2.00: mixed Iron Age and Late Bronze: handle of a Mycenaean scyphos, Late Bronze bowl with everted rim (drawing) Middle Bronze: red on black and red on red. B7 - Region pt 64 - 1.25 to 1.70 (brown earth) Abundant Iron Age pottery: fragments of spout, jugs with flat base, handle (drawing) ; sherds of Mycenaean oenochoe, linear decoration:

Drawing: two decorated pottery sherds

? 0 Middle Bronze.B5/B6 - Region pt 58 - 1.00 to 1.50: pottery of the Iron Age (not preserved) - B6 - Region West pt 84 - 2.00 to 2.30: LB 2 Mycenaean sherds, 1 rim of carinated bowl, with small handle (drawing) B6 - Region West Pt 84 - 2.30 to 2.60: MB pottery abundant: red on black, red on red, common ware, black decoration. B9: 2.00 to 2.90 (rock) - (Region South Pt 80) Iron Age: fragments of ladle, candlesticks (perhaps lamps) - Late Bronze: milk bowl, carinated bowls, Mycenaean sherds (drawing) bowl in black pottery (drawing)

B9 - Pt 80: MB: red on black (small sherds) - B10/B12 - Region Pt 43 - 2.30 to 2.60: sherds with red decoration Late Bronze, sherd red on black -

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

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