Notebook·34 CDF art. 175·1962

Excavation journal of R. Kuss, Enkomi 1962R. Kuss

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

Scan 51 of notebook 34 CDF art. 175 (Excavation journal of R. Kuss, Enkomi 1962), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 175, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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the very busy day, filled by these discoveries, ends with a tally of 13 pairs of horns, one of which is attached to a bucranium seen in profile (including upper jaw) at 127, the top of another bucranium. average level of these discoveries – 0.80

the discovery of the centaurs TC led me, given their position near the edge of the trench, to make immediately a small extension in order to be sure of the zone.

Drawing: plan of a trench extension with a hatched oval area, a wall and a North arrow; labels: 125 ×; 2.00; 2.00; zone "cornes"; × point 902 (centaures); mur; 124. ×; N

the discovery in this extension, of a clandestine excavation, comes at once to limit our hopes for the East

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

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