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 57 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 29Scan 57 of 200

At 8 h 15, resumed work on the well 1918-

1919 - Red earth, loose, little pottery - We are at 0,60 m below the lowest preserved level of the wall, 1,07 m below top of curb - Practically no pottery

1918 4,50 - 4,70 m = numerous fragments of large jars and of pithoi - A fragment of beaker in frit. The earth (grey konnos) becomes more and more muddy -

With the available women, we are excavating the tomb under the room of the slag. Tomb cut into the rock, entrance to the north - Probably robbed, although the small slab closing slab is still in place.

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

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