Notebook·34 CDF art. 134-1·1965

Enkomi excavation notebook, 1965, R. KussR. Kuss

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

Scan 61 of notebook 34 CDF art. 134-1 (Enkomi excavation notebook, 1965, R. Kuss), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 134-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 31Scan 61 of 176

section drawn up with Nicolardot. zone 5 N. a cutting into floor III leads Johnstone to attribute the enclosure to floor II and to schematise it thus:

Drawing: schematic section of upright block, stones and bricks; labels: W; E; 1; 2; 3

proposing the erection of large blocks supported by rubble and bricks in 2, then erection of 3 In my view, the example chosen in 5 N is wrong; it is a particular case of a repair of a large tilted block, a repair carried out during the erection of 3. (see rubble organised against the E face of the large block) Throughout the trench the rubble 2 is basically a filling, the stones not being placed or balanced to support as Johnstone thinks, but thrown in and piled up to fill by mass effect. in my view. 1 = 1o phase 3 and 2 in that order constitute 2o phase.

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

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