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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 5 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 5 of 54

ENKOMI - ALASIA

Stamp: 1

EXCAVATION NOTEBOOK kept by Olivier PELON from 19 to 25 / 10 / 1970

Cleaning of tombs 1336 and 1442

The method followed for cleaning these two tombs is simple: it consists in carefully cleaning the immediate surroundings first, as well as the top of the walls and possibly the roofing, then in a second stage, to remove the crust of mud covering the floor, a crust which has accumulated since the excavation of these two tombs, respectively in 1963 and 1965.

Tomb 1336, excavated by W. Johnstone in 1963, is with an ellipsoidal chamber, with an entrance at one of the extremities of the ellipse, perpendicular to the major axis of the tomb. The walls are of stone in their lower part and the vault is composed of several courses of baked bricks and of a single course of slabs. This "tholos" has been carefully described by W. Johnstone.

The cleaning of the tomb allowed a more complete study of the exterior and of the devices used to balance the thrust of

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

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