Notebook·34 CDF art. 139-7·1970

Mission archaeologique française d'Enkomi-Alasia, 21st season, notebook of observations by E. and J. LagarceÉlisabeth Martin du Puytison-Lagarce and Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 11 of notebook 34 CDF art. 139-7 (Mission archaeologique française d'Enkomi-Alasia, 21st season, notebook of observations by E. and J. Lagarce), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 139-7, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Diam of mouth: 0,48 (N-S) × 0,52 m (E-W). Filled up to the mouth. Widens fairly quickly. Built of rather small stones in general (15 × 15 cm, 20 × 20 cm), irregular.

1916 The height of the mouth original is marked by a gargouille which remains, perched on a witness very damaged by the weather and repaired by the mason, to the S-SW of the well, at 1 m above the level where the whole circuit of the well is preserved, level from which the depths will be taken. Diam 0,45 to 0,50 m. Construction very irregular, with stones which point towards the outside. Tends to narrow towards the bottom: no doubt a simple sump. It contains a grey-greenish, sandy, loose earth, and little pottery. At 0,95 m from

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

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