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 65 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 33Scan 65 of 200

Saturday Monday 12 October -

1 extra workman only presents himself for hire - Many women, but impossible to employ them at the west rampart, in the "konnos" of the surface -

1919 - We are at 2,55 m - The pottery has become very abundant = wavy line bowl and jars in red t.c., with incised sign on a handle -

1922. The pottery is clearly L.B., with numerous fragments of Mycenaean krater base(s) - We are at 2,90 m - At 3,30 m, base - Last earth = greenish grey, damp, fairly plastic with many limestone debris (sample) The base is hard rock -

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

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