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 45 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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Temperature at noon = 33°5 - Weather heavy, stormy - Clouds moving in gradually - A few drops of rain at 15h15 - 15h30 -

In the evening - Setting up of the batteries of the Landrover - Washing of the pottery from well 52/57, starting from 3,30m below the present rim of the well - The whole lot is Mycenaean, except 4 or 5 atypical sherds - No milk-bowl, base-ring or other pottery of local tradition - Date = 13th c. - A particular sherd (photo by J.P. Nicolardot) = rim of large vessel (diam. 32 cm) = krater whose profile approaches those of the "style rude" ("rude style") T. c. fine, hard, whose colour, passing from light chamois (surface) to a grey-greenish (core) indicates

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

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