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 45 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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1917 Thickness of the sort of floor of slag (sample taken) = 0,20 m on average, more thin towards the centre, as slightly collapsed from below. Lower down, in the empty part, the wall of the well bears, nestled between or on the stones, but not wedged between them, fragments of slag, often smooth, like drops, on their face turneds towards the air, as if they they had settled while they were still liquid, in the form of drops.

1918 The white layer, which has only 1 to 3 cm thickness, covers all the surface of the well, but stops at 5-10 cm from the wall. Between it and the wall, konnos. It rises very slight ly at the edge. Under the white layer,

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

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