Notebook·34 CDF art. 122-1·1946

2nd season at Enkomi, excavation notebookClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 47 of notebook 34 CDF art. 122-1 (2nd season at Enkomi, excavation notebook), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 122-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 47 of 101

Saturday 21 Sept. 1946 Resumption of excavations 7 E with reduced, selected teams until I have found new workmen capable of working 7 E towards E.

Opening of a new search area, 200 m to the N of the large current area, where one reportedly found remains of large tombs (?) according to Georgiou. I set up 8 men (excavators) and 3 women to clear away earth.

Drawing: vertical section of a tomb shaft and chamber with depth arrows; labels: 2 m 30; 3 m 50; 4 m 10

Discovered Tomb 12 intact Middle Bronze. dromos entrance at 2 m 30 dromos base, slab-covered tomb = 3 m 50 tomb base at 4 m 10

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

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