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 289 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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We take the opportunity to strip which requires painstaking work

15/16 - Stripping of the layers of pottery in the south portion of the trench - Conclusions = the brick burnt (cf p. 50) is an element of an E-W wall in brick, bordering the courtyard to the S - But peculiarity = bricks laid vertically - The room to the N S of this wall is a storeroom of pottery = of broken pottery lines the walls on three sides cleared so far - The E-W wall to the S no longer survives only in a very fragmentary way, having collapsed for the most part into the old trench - The east wall is the wall with white plaster - The W wall is not yet located (in the following trench) This arrangement of the pottery

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

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