Notebook·34 CDF art. 134-5·1965

Enkomi-Alasia excavations, 1965: notebook of W. JohnstoneW. Johnstone

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

Scan 21 of notebook 34 CDF art. 134-5 (Enkomi-Alasia excavations, 1965: notebook of W. Johnstone), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 134-5, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 11Scan 21 of 124

20IX65.

Tr. 3N (-1.60m) fireplace pt 1340 disappearing into E side of trench. Belongs to same level as preceding To be thoroughly examined and sketched later.

During day many attempts made with small pick and brush to isolate a brick in the very large deposits of brick tumble especially in Tr. 3N - 8N, 12N. to determine if in this level there were perpendicular E/W brick walls connecting outer city wall with an inner NS/ wall which appears in Tr 4-6N (cf p4). By scratching on the white floor level (c. - 1.20m) in Trs. 3-6N numerous brick fragments could be seen but it proved impossible to detach them from their surrounding greenish-grey clay whose consistency they almost perfectly match. The bricks appear to be made of reddish clay, bonded with largish white limestone grits. They also appear to be irregularly

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

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