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 89 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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Pit 3 - East chamber - Dismantling of the burial - It is very disturbed. Not far of ae phalange hand bone (13) gold wire (earring). Photo by J.P. Nicolardot - Vessel C, the only one almost complete, is half filled with muddy deposit - Must have remained exposed to the water that entered during the showers after the last looting of the tomb - The sherds A and E were separated from the burial by a layer of mud - They therefore do not form part of it.

Pit no. 6 - Bottle-shaped hole in the rock - Base at 1,40 m below surface of the rock - Pottery very fragmentary and mixed. Majority BR -

Shaft 52/57 - Resumption of the excavation. Still red earth almost sterile = fragments

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

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