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 27 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.

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also in the West wall at its end towards the dromos

Drawing: three courses of staggered rectangular blocks, some hatched; labels: L; L; L; mur

finally [illegible] in the North wall towards the dromos, in such a way

partial but on the 3e and 4e courses.

Drawing: three courses of staggered rectangular blocks, some hatched; labels: L; L; L; crushed course

They are also met at one point of the South wall.

On this side two are counted end to end at the 5e course. In

several places the presence of a binder is very clear

of reddish earth which Johnstone did not notice the

presence.

At the end of the wall on the North side towards the door, two

fractures mark the force of the thrust exerted from the top

downwards and towards the interior of the tomb: at this place,

one of the brick courses, the 2e, has one of its bricks half

[illegible] broken, the end bricks having disappeared; moreover

the terminal stone of the lower course has been pushed towards

the front.

Above the 5e course of bricks, one finds a course

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

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