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 395 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 47 et 48Scan 395 of 402

the scene shows two figures standing s on either side of a stylised tree . The two men raise an arm towards the tree, and the one who is at the right has something under one arm at the height of the belt which seems to be a weapon ( dagger or sword ? )

Drawing: two standing human figures flanking a central stylised tree, between two horizontal lines

They were found at a depth of 1.00 m . Not far away a small bronze disc with a rolled bronze sheet bead were discovered as well as a steatite bead , bi-conical, decorated with concentric circles .

Area South ( Supervision JP. Nicolardot ) . The architecture is much better preserved and it was possible to clear a room on the street which belongs to the last phase of the town , with floor well in place , pottery in situ ... as fine furnishings = a small ivory disc decorated with parallel lines towards the outer edge , of the spindle whorl type but very flat ϕ = 36 m/m

The part of the area furthest to the W. is not yet finished ( the konnos is thicker ) so work continues while the other workmen have been placed to clear

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

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