Notebook·34 CDF art. 122-1·1946

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

·

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

Scan 49 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 49 of 101

Tomb 12 (continued) It contains lying side by side to one another in the centre of the chamber 2 skeletons surrounded by vessels red on black etc. all that I have been able to see at first glance. There are also 2 bracelets. The tomb is rel. poor, but preserved abs. intact.

Pottery in the tomb, on the dromos and around it is purely Middle Bronze Whereas the tomb of the Middle Bronze is cut in greygreenish fairly soft marl, above there is a bank of white chalk harder, in which are cut … continues

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

Spotted a wrong reading? Write to us or use alexis@ancientcyprus.com