Manuscript·34 CDF art. 142-2·1953

Enkomi-Alasia, 7th season of excavations, 1953Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 56 of manuscript 34 CDF art. 142-2 (Enkomi-Alasia, 7th season of excavations, 1953), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 142-2, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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9) The precautions against floodwater & rain have been taken in along the westwall. The watchman must gothere after heavy rain to make 10) The custodian at Enkomi-Alasia sure that all is right. has no uniform as far as I see. He would be smarter with.

11) Seen the Commissioner before leaving & told him that the plan indicating the dumps to be removed, particularly inside the town, will be in your hands after some time. Forrer has made a very detailed survey, but need to put all his readings on paper: 750 in all!

12) The former road to the Exped house, now abandoned, is now a dustbowl very desagreable by the prevailing North & North east wind. We tried to improve ourselves. But only planting and creating vegetation can remedy. The same dust is provided by the road now busy which, we hope will get its asphalt cover.

13) The Expeditionhouse walls (exterior) would need to be plastered on the est (road) side only, occasionel. All 4 rooms have been whitewashed interiorly on our arrival. They are clean.

14) There were 7 small objects from the well which needed, after all, to be put on an inventory, the copy of which was handed over by M. Forrer to M. Dikaios. From them, six have been selected for temporary expor-

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

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