Notebook·34 CDF art. 138-6·1967

19th season of excavations at Enkomi, notebook of Schaeffer and LagarceJacques Lagarce

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 161 of notebook 34 CDF art. 138-6 (19th season of excavations at Enkomi, notebook of Schaeffer and Lagarce), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 138-6, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 68Scan 161 of 402

Sector 20 - The large pit to the East of the construction of large slabs presents on its West wall a filling of carefully built stones. - The pocket dug in the very soft limestone rock seems to have been walled up with care.

Is it a tomb whose closure would have consisted of a wall of stones assembled, or more simply of an old tomb, looted, which would have been filled in to provide the foundations of the upper constructions?

A photographic record is taken before proceeding with the clearing of the part half South of this blocking -

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

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