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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 47 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 24Scan 47 of 200

konnos -

1917 Resumption of the excavation, under the empty part, i.e. at 4,40 m - Still slag. Pottery = several sherds of very large vessels - The fill contains much more earth mixed with slag than higher up - Fragments of a small Base-ring jug - Ring - Several large stones (# 10 to 50 kg) -

1918 - In the konnos + nonplastic earth under the 2nd white layer, pottery not very abundant, still III C1 - At the end of the day, we are at 3,05 m -

1917 At the end of the day, 4,75 m -

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

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