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 29 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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step which facilitates the descent); then widens again up to the base, ovoid in plan -

1914. Since the change of earth, the pottery has become rare: a few fragments of large vessels - Small broken round grinder - (drawing) The fill has returned to a more plastic consistency, more rich in konnos, with still some limestone rotten yellow-greenish, but in small quantity. There was therefore a layer of 5 to 10 cm of these debris limestone between two zones of konnos — At 4,18 m depth, base of the well -

1917. Resumption of the excavation. Fragment of slag or ore - Fragment of closed vase (with stirrup ?) Mycenaean -

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

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