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 33 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 17Scan 33 of 200

Tuesday, 6 October

1918. Beginning of excavation. Well just behind the ashlar walls which border the paved square, and to the NE of it - Well with a broken curb, which corresponds to the thick white floor (Floor V) of which traces remain, in particular right against the well, along the wall which runs along it to the E. The curb is rough, of vacuolar shelly limestone - It has an ovoid shape, 1,15 m long by 0,72 m wide, opening 0,35 × 0,46 m Its upper face is quite flat - Mouth of the well below the curb- : 0,90 (N-S) × 0,62 m (EW), roughly ovale. Quatre assises de d'assez grosses pierres (0,30 × 0,15/0,20 m on average) with face turned towards the inside of the well, fairly flat.

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

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