Manuscript·34 CDF art. 175·1965

Enkomi-Alasia 17th season 1965, observations by James RobinsonJames Robinson

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

Scan 39 of manuscript 34 CDF art. 175 (Enkomi-Alasia 17th season 1965, observations by James Robinson), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

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

Page ~~16~~ ^20^Scan 39 of 44

^cf p. 15) 7. 15. E Pit dug 15 cm down in "bed rock" area, bordered on W by small stone wall, produced bones & 1/3 couvette of pottery sherds. This is just S of (drawing) wall under which a thick layer of sherd-on-sherd lies, a layer continuing on N side of wall at heigher level:

Drawing: vertical section showing a stone wall, sherd layers and a pit in bedrock with a depth scale from 90 to 170; labels: N; 90 below surface; 100; 110; sherds; 120; 130; stone wall; 140; 150; 160; sherds under wall; 170 below surface; bed rock; sherd pit

Small bones (probably animal, or infant -- ? put in sack to study) found with broken bowls on E face of N S small wall in a pit, burial, or foundation trench for that wall. It is probably, like 7.22 E (cf. p 11), an infant burial in scooped out hollow in bed rock under floor.

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

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