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 79 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 40Scan 79 of 124

27IX65 - 28IX65.

Raised horizontal handle fragment of open bowl of Mycenaean type. Ware is beige, painted inside and outside with bands in matt dark brown.

Drawing: handle fragment with painted bands and vertical dimension arrows; labels: 7 cms.

28|IX|65 Tr. 5N Sounding B Report on excavations to Level III (-1.85 m). Sounding B is 1 m across i.e. from N to S, and runs the width of the Tr. i.e. W to E between the Cyclopaean block of the W city wall and the N-S wall at E edge of Trench noted on p 4. The changeover from levels I to II difficult to detect. But II is still a very clearly marked burnt level - sloping to the N. On the N side of the Sounding level II becomes a pit which has clearly been cut through level III, the white clay floor of which can be

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

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