Notebook·34 CDF art. 121·1934

First season at Enkomi, excavation notebook, trial trenches 1 to 66Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 12 of notebook 34 CDF art. 121 (First season at Enkomi, excavation notebook, trial trenches 1 to 66), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 121, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 5Scan 12 of 124

Sounding - trial no. 5.

Drawing: rectangular plan with hatched rounded area inside and north arrow above; labels: N; 2m; 3m

Rock at 1m40, inside cut, large excav. depth of 0m30, and in this one a kind of large well, diam. 1m50, filled with fine brown earth and emptied down to 1m depth. Total depth reached 2m50 At 1m10 on the rim, excav. layer grey ash (W wall). S wall at 1m level bones, calcareous earth

Finds: Fragment of small cup basalt, large handle avec round, comm Rom. or Greek!, common pottery, old part, One rim of a common vessel, deformed and calcined by excess firing, indication of pottery manufacture, weight earth baked (weaver ?) (drawing), 3 pieces … continues

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

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