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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 16 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 16 of 124

7Sounding - trial no. 7

Drawing: rectangle with hatched semi-circular area on left side and north arrow above; labels: N; 1 m 60; 2 m

E. part, rock at 2 m. W. part, circular excavation diam. 1 m, depth 1 m 50 (depth total 3 m 50)

Finds: Common pottery. Fragm. Cypriot bowl with ladder pattern, good workmanship sherd red on black. Fish vertebra fr. of ladle in t. c. like R. el B. (rather coarse)

At 2 m 50 SE of trial 7, another trial, already backfilled.

Finds: ladle, t. cuite, with groove fr. Mycenaean pot., workmanship 14th c.

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

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