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 91 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.

Page 46Scan 91 of 196

14/X/63

No similar shaping is discernible on E doorpost Lintel shows a faint shaping roughly corresponding to top edge of door slab 12 cms fr. its bottom edge. Inside doorway is a step 87 cms below underside of lintel 17 cms thick . filling doorway 75 cms wide. Below this step is a rough step formed in the crumbly rock / konnos falling away into the ramp (cf. bottom of p 30) The 9 large stones mentioned on p 30 were found to be part of fall of kiln - there was a dislodged brick recovered from among them and they were loose in position The stone foundation levels of the kiln stop at the N edge of the bricks and the enclosing wall appearing beyond to the N have their foundation in the crumbly rock / konnos c 65 cms above the foundation level of the kiln proper The kiln was concluded to be in fact a tomb for the following reasons:-

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

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