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 55 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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… brown earth, seems intact, and contains a burial of the end of the Late Bronze - Pt topo for pit 1439

Cistern 4- The filling, of marl, is almost sterile, with some large sherds and a stone grinder (drawing) - Instead of excavating the whole surface, we are only working on about half of it, in order to find out, at less cost, whether a complete clearance is necessary -

Well 52/57 - At 4,25m below the level of the rock, the earth has suddenly turned red and become sterile. It is a kind of clay, with fragments of "konnos" green and decomposed plant debris -

The weather has been bad today - At 11 h, a violent storm forced us to stop work -

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

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