Notebook·34 CDF art. 139-10·1970

Excavation notebook of Olivier Pelon, Enkomi-Alasia, 1970Olivier Pelon

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 21 of notebook 34 CDF art. 139-10 (Excavation notebook of Olivier Pelon, Enkomi-Alasia, 1970), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 139-10, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 21 of 54

Stamp: 19

and which, at the time of the excavation, did not reach the contact with the wall. It is possible that this floor was cut by the construction of the wall of the tholos, but it is to be related to an East - West wall which seems to be the extension of an outer South wall of the tomb: It is therefore more likely that the villagers, at the same time as their sounding in the North-East corner, made a trench along the outer East wall.

Drawing: plan of stones forming an L-shaped wall corner with north arrow; labels: N; S

This floor rests on a layer of earth with inclusions of ash, 0,40 m thick; this layer descends down to the bottom of the excavation cut into the rock.

To the South the situation is a little more confused because no excavation in depth is possible; however it seems that one is dealing with a wall 4,35 m long, 0,60 m wide (w. measured at the West) over which a wall perhaps superimposed itself, more wide (c. 0,75 m). The other possible interpretation is that

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

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