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 222 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 222 of 343

Written upside down on upper page

Region Pt 99 - 1.50 to 2.00: in trench Fragment of bowl with white slip and decoration in dark red, stylised (rude style) spiral at inside the base. Beginning of Iron Age -

Drawing: profile of a rim, profile of a base, and a floral/spiral motif; labels: none

End Late Bronze: "large bowls" plain red with black streaks -

Drawing: profile of a bowl rim; labels: none

Late Bronze: little or Mycenaean, decoration concentric bright red, base ring. sherd milk bowl (bichrome): rough base in rough patina: carinated bowl in fine orange-ochre fabric (drawing)

Region Pt 97 - from Pt 97 (1.50) to Pt 98 (2.00): Iron Age pottery painted: bowl (drawing) painted gold with black decoration (not preserved) Region Pt 97 - 2 m Pt 98 (2.00) down to rock 1 m lower, south of Pt 97 - 98: padja Late Bronze (milk bowl, base ring)

Lower page

Pt 85: padja; terracotta spindle whorl, fragment of alabaster vessel: (drawing) Late Bronze pottery: milk bowl, base ring, white painted and red painted -

Hall Pt 106/107: - 1.50 to 2.00: Iron Age: neck at base of jar, cooking pot, bowl with small handles at rim, krater rim with slip white and decoration in dark red (drawing)

- 2.00: Pt 107: Mycenaean sherds, with some Late Bronze sherds: milk bowl, with decoration of cross-hatched lozenges (drawing) carinated bowl - 2.00 to 2.30: over the whole hall, M.B. abundant red on black, red on red, lustrous, painted with decoration red or black - - 2.30: Pt 106: complete bowl with ring base red fabric, hemispherical; at rim, band painted dark red bounded by a groove: Iron Age

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

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