Notebook·34 CDF art. 122-2·1946–1947

2nd and 3rd seasons at Enkomi, excavation notebook no. 2Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 111 of notebook 34 CDF art. 122-2 (2nd and 3rd seasons at Enkomi, excavation notebook no. 2), handwritten in French and Greek. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 122-2, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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rection the former North area. We put there half the workmen (about 18). At 20 cent. depth, Mr Schaeffer tells me that the first result is very clear: no pottery Submycenaean, everything is older. ___

Observation on the Rough ware. Although this pottery is difficult to date, I have the impression that the whitish rough ware so often met with in the rampart quarter is lacking here, and that this manufacture does not rego back far, consequently, beyond the Submycenaean period, or the end of the Mycenaean period. The rough ware that we find in the North area is more coloured, reddish or brownish. ___

19 NovemberQ IV 9 D a little Submycenaean pottery (whitish rough ware, and bowl with concentric circles) near pieces of basalt bowl. depth 0.80 - 1.00 c. Not far from there, a little higher up, had been found the fragment of tripod in stone, similar to those from the Great Area 1946.

Drawing: profile of a stone tripod fragment with one foot

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

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