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 47 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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probably local provenance - Buff slip - light - Painting brown - black, glossy - We have the upper part right of a panel bounded by a thick vertical line. A figure under seated (?) under a tree, of which long curvilinear branch ending in a flower which another figure, standing, is smelling - Treatment of the flower = "rude - style" - Branch = evokes Crete through fluidity of the brushstroke - Hairstyles with curly hair also evoke Crete - Figures: very schematic draughtsmanship, caricatural - (Detail almost effaced = transverse strokes on the arms) - Genre scene rather than religious scene. In any case, treated in the spirit of a genre scene . One thinks of the frescoes of Knossos, despite the chronological gap (13th c. !) Received no. = Pt^ topo 1437

Pottery from pit-silo 50 - Examination of this pottery once cleaned confirms that the silo

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

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