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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 75 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 75 of 101

Monday 30. Sept.46.

Continuation of search for enceinte all along the Sud region and West. Gr. dispersal workmen. —

Area Atelier We reach natural rock at 3 m 65. Large walls rest on rock. Here down to c. 2 m finds postmycen. XIII - XIIth + iron age. Mixed with some sherds mycen. chypr. prob. disturbed by foundations.

+ Bichr / milkbowl / b. rOn the rock layer with pot. chypr. end XVI - XVth and fine frgmts Mycen. end XVth.

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

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