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 33 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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near, has a sort of flat base 0,37 wide and an upper extremity, upper end with a double bevel, one of these edges is flattened There is probably one of the stones covering the space situated in front of the door. It would have rested to the West on the small low wall which extends the West jamb of the door, whose upper part is flush with the level of the upper face of the lintel, at 1,60 m above the floor in front of the door. [illegible] length of this low wall: 0,50 c. from the North face of the lintel, which corresponds roughly to the max. width of the stone mentioned above, i.e. 0,48 m. On the East side, the head of the tomb wall is very demolished, but the lower stone currently out of its place, would project once restored to its original place by 0,40 m. over the existing masonry and comes roughly into alignment with the West face of the East jamb. There must also have been a sort of supporting pylon there which gave way under the thrust.

In front of the door, on the North side, opens the dromos whose exact limits could not be recognised given the presence of later walls. One may however think that it was a bent dromos with flat stones having been found, two in place, the other effallen, in the West wall, beneath the later structure in the form of steps.

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

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