Letter·34 CDF art. 175·31 May 1948

Letter from Schaeffer to Béquignon and Demargne with an article for Charles Picard's Mélanges d'ArchéologieClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 14 of letter 34 CDF art. 175 (Letter from Schaeffer to Béquignon and Demargne with an article for Charles Picard's Mélanges d'Archéologie), typed in French. The transcription and translation follow.

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

Unnumbered pageScan 14 of 14

Illustrations.

1. Excavations of the south enceinte at Enkomi seen from the cliff, 1947.

2. External face of the base of the south enceinte; in the background the cliff which served as a quarry.

3. The two faces and the rubble core of the south enceinte.

4. The internal face, the void caused by the removal of the rubble core and the reverse of the external face of the enceinte.

5.) A team of workmen and workwomen in the act of clearing a 6.) section of the south enceinte.

7. Plan and sections of the south enceinte at Enkomi [handwritten: flourish] (to follow).

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

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