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 161 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.

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Thursday, 6 October

Pit 46 - We are at 3,15 m - Still red, hard, sterile earth -

Pit 41 - At 1,20 m - 1,30 m of depth, fragments of a "milk - bowl" of poor workmanship, almost complete, and of a cup in "bilbil ware" - Pottery very abundant

Pit 43 south - At 3,05 m, the earth becomes a perhaps a little more dark, but above all, it seems that the pottery changes = frag ment of bowl decorated with the motif of horns (drawing) , fragment of cala thos, whose workmanship is close to that of the fine Mycenaean -

Pit 41 - 1,50 m depth = Still enormous quantities of large sherds. A sling bullet t. crue, a base of crucible with lait at the base - 1,80 m = bronze dagger.

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

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