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Notebook·34 CDF art. 136-1·1963

Excavation notebook of Johnstone, Enkomi 1963, 15th seasonW. Johnstone

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

Scan 55 of notebook 34 CDF art. 136-1 (Excavation notebook of Johnstone, Enkomi 1963, 15th season), handwritten in English. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 136-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Drawing: plan of five adjacent trenches with pits and a street; labels: Tr. 520E; 521E; 522E; 523E; 524E; STREET; PIT; PIT; PIT; PIT; PIT; cf 421E p.12; cf 422E p12; M. COURTOIS

Tr. 521E (and extreme E of 520E) work for season finished at white floor - depth 0.85m cf. Tr. 421E p. 16

Tr. 520E the EW/ wall in well dressed stone noticed in Tr. 420E p. 15 continues E in this section for a further 2.05m when it turns S : it continues S into —

Tr. 521E where a first ashlar stone appears at a depth of - 0.80m : ending 1.25m S of S side of E/W wall above. The line of Ashlar stone is continued S after a gap of 0.58 m [illegible] by further blocks (cf p 26) appearing at a depth of 0.65m for a distance of 2.25m. The line of the Ashlar wall S is continued

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

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