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 15 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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over this preserved top, with 13 cm of earth between this top and the base of the floor (floor 7 cm thick). So the well should contain, in the intact part of its filling, material from the beginning of the LB, just earlier than the slag floor - For the moment, light brown earth, LB and Iron Age sherds mixed. In any case, this well will be very useful for dating the "ore-slag" floor which has not yielded enough pottery for a secure date.

1915 - We are at 0,90 m. Light brownred earth, dry, since the beginning - Almost no pottery, LB and MB (fragment of a small jug in pottery light painted, White Painted V/VI). At 1,10 m, small jug in ceramic light scraped, with convex base,

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

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