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 153 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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The walls had certainly a superstructure in mud brick: it is clear in sector 2, where one sees, in the section, brick over 10 to 20 cm high on both N-S walls.

We are reaching floors: white floor, hard, with ashes, at 0,60 m, in sector 6; patch of ashes at 0,52 m in the east of sector 2; white floor ash-layer, not thick, in sector 2, at 0,45 m. In sectors 3 to 5, one has not yet seen a floor, but pottery in situ begins to appear: various sherds in sector 3, jar east of sector 5.

The wall which borders the street, in sector 3 is bordered, on the side of the street, by a row of small stones, which perhaps formed part of a facing intended to protect the base of the superstruc-

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

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