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 147 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.

Page 74Scan 147 of 200

Saturday 24 October.

Clearing of the top of the façade wall on the street over almost the whole of the trench. Several N-S walls join it - These are walls of small rubble, with small ashlar often at the corners. In sector 3, door, with small paving in approximate semicircle shape, made of large flat stones (cf. in the area of the rampart, same arrangement in front of the doors opening onto the exterior or onto courtyards, in the 1st and 2nd level). This paving projects onto the street, over which it slightly extends the level = so as to keep the feet dry in front of the door in rainy weather = cf. the situation of these quarters in the part low in the town, where water must have flowed.

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

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