Notebook·34 CDF art. 138-3·1966

French Mission Enkomi-Alasia, 1966 season, notebook of notes and observations by J. LagarceJacques Lagarce

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

Scan 121 of notebook 34 CDF art. 138-3 (French Mission Enkomi-Alasia, 1966 season, notebook of notes and observations by J. Lagarce), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 138-3, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 61Scan 121 of 376

Pit no. 29. the erosion gully has dug a hole which reveals a void beneath the floor of a room at the edge of the street - As the hole has undermined a wall which threatens to collapse onto the workman, we support the wall, and we look for the entrance of the tomb by enlarging a little the existing hole _ In doing so, we are obliged to cut slightly into the floor of the room - It consists of a layer of yellow and hard mortar, thick in places 18 cm, and resting in places on konnos - Beneath, layer of very black ashes 10 cm thick -

Pit no. 7. 3,55 m depth - in earth grey = base of large vase, fragments of wavy line bowl and other sherds painted contemporary -

Pit no. 10 - Filling: konnos, with

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

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