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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 70 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 70 of 124

Sounding - trial no. 37

Drawing: rectangular outline of trench with a north arrow and an x inside the left wall; labels: 3m; 2m; x

rock at 2m50, excavation irregular.

W side disturbed, rubble and rock cut (Jorko supposes fallen?) × at 1m haematite cylinder style Cretan.

Finds: cylinder, many common pottery not appearing not Mycenaean(?), some fragm. on the wheel, two trefoil-spouted bottles incomplete, ribbed vessel rather coarse, bowl handle red commercial make, small gourd earth red ordinary, fragm. statuette with det..

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

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