Notebook·34 CDF art. 138-2·1966

Enkomi excavation notebook 1966, ForrerW. Forrer

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

Scan 83 of notebook 34 CDF art. 138-2 (Enkomi excavation notebook 1966, Forrer), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 138-2, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 45Scan 83 of 172

Margin left: Wednesday

9. 11. 66 After some rain during the night it is fine again fine weather but the trenches are too damp to be able to work in. The workmen moreover have not come except Pakomios and 7 women who continue to wash the sherds and to clean with the small pick the floors in my area which is the most dry since it is not yet very deeply excavated.

Pt. 1540Raimos Baios takes also a small pick and finds 103 at 1,40 (0,60 below wall (3) to N) sou at the level of the floor III of the room to N a fine weight of hematite olive-shaped

Drawing: oval outline of an olive-shaped weight

h. 25, w. 29, length 53 mm

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

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