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 35 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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5 m east of tomb 1336, opened another tomb (1442) which presents notable differences from the first.

It is set within a chamber or courtyard 3,65 m from N. to S. by 4 m from W. to E. The walls of it are fairly well preserved, except the S. wall which appears to have been partly destroyed by a peasants' excavation. In the corner S.-E., there may have been a passage but its existence is not certain. Traces of a remodelling are noted, with construction of a low wall in the N. part.

Access to the tomb is by a sloping dromos bounded by a wall on the W. and another on the N. side: the N. wall is inseparable from the N. wall of the room in which the tomb is placed; over a length of 0,80 m, the N. wall, instead of being only 0,65 high (present state), descends by 0, 85 m further into a pit cut into the rock. In this pit the rock has been clearly cut on several levels: at the bottom, in front of the threshold of the tomb, a space of about 1,05 m from N. to S. by 1,70 m from W. to E., wall included (without the wall: c. 1,20 m.); on the E., there is a first step at 0,40 m above the lower landing of dimension 0,95 m, of

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

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