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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 349 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 85Scan 349 of 376

between two walls NS, jar and 1544 moving quern stone - Rest on top of layer ashes corresponding to that of 16 NW (layer III) -

Drawing: stratigraphic section with vegetation at top, oblique bricks, and an ashlar block cutting through horizontal layers; labels: W; 1/20; E; Remains of a wall niv. I ?; Disturbed earth -; Bricks placed oblique; T. brown; with white debris; Ashes; Ashlar (fallen); grey ashes; layer III of 16 NW; T. red burnt; T. brown; beds of red and brown clay -

14 = at the level of the pit, layer II rises abruptly by 20 cm ± towards the E, which compensates for the natural slope of the ground -

13 - Section east wall pit II = v. p. following - Ashlar wall NS facing this section, other face of the

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

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