Notebook·34 CDF art. 139-5·1970

Beyer's notebook, Enkomi 1970, sector 7W, cuttings 111, 112, 113Dominique Beyer

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

Scan 5 of notebook 34 CDF art. 139-5 (Beyer's notebook, Enkomi 1970, sector 7W, cuttings 111, 112, 113), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 139-5, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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1400 The bottom of the central pit in 112 is reached. It stopped on the surface of the rock which it had slightly cut into. The pit, approxiapproximately at the centre of square 112, is of rectangular plan slightly offset in relation to the axis of the trench. L x l = 1,40 x 1 m approx. Depth: 1,30 m from the present ground surface. - The pit in square 113 is also rectangular but oriented perpendicularly to the axis of the trench in the north-east corner of the square. L x l: 2,20 x 1,10 m approx. Its western end forms a curve bounded by rubble stones. 1430. We realise that the curve corresponds to what must be a well whose eastern part has been destroyed by the pit. 1500. At the bottom of the "well", emergence of the surface of the rock at - 1,75 m from P. It must in fact be a simple sump.

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

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