Notebook·34 CDF art. 136-5·1963

Notes by Lagarce, 16th season of excavations, Enkomi-Alasia, 1963, 1st notebook, continuation of 1962Jacques Lagarce

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

Scan 87 of notebook 34 CDF art. 136-5 (Notes by Lagarce, 16th season of excavations, Enkomi-Alasia, 1963, 1st notebook, continuation of 1962), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 136-5, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 59Scan 87 of 170

216E1007At 0,38m depthr, just above- the floor at 0,45m, second floor of this area, boule en t.c.

215E1008What I had taken for a pit (cf p. 57) was not really one: there was a pit only at the surface. These clandestine digs stopped very quickly, perhaps after encountering at 0,65m depthr, the bed of broken pottery. This bed of pottery seems to be a fill made fairly late in the Iron Age, since it contains pottery of this period. Below the level of this bed of pottery, at 0,80m depthr, small steatite mould

Drawing: rectangular block with carved channels and hollows on top surface; labels: 4,6cm

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

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