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 53 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 27Scan 53 of 124

24/IX/65 .

Key of sketch on p 26 continued — A = a light grey ashy layer, with a mixture of charcoal, broken sherds and brick fall.

Sketch of N/S face of W side of Tr. 12 N.

Drawing: stratigraphic section with vertical depth scale on left; labels: -0.80m; -0.90m; -1.00m; -1.10m; -1.20m; -1.30m; To this depth from the To surface, inundation laid clay, grey brown in colour.; Fallen red brick mixed with white grits, sherds, charcoal, bone; Stone Fill Level II ?; dull grey level, with streaks of chocolate brown earth, stones, white grits.

This area requires excavation to deeper level and extension of Tr. to the W.

B = témoin marking beginning of brick tumble, at a depth from the surface of c. -0.90 m, which covers surface of both stone fills of levels I and II.

C = apparently a little ? lane or ? channel. c 65 cms. across its top.

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

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