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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 37 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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lower than the corresponding floor at the well. The earth changes at this depth: becomes greyish, with konnos, as the wall ceases to be built at 1 m depthr. Pottery 12th c., mostly coarse.

1917. We are at 3 m - Practically only slag, almost without earth or pottery, with small fragments of burnt bone

1918 We are at 1,65 m - Earth grey greenish, with konnos and sand - Pottery 12th c., with several fragments of fine vessels -

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

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