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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 113 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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We also find in QN 6.D at 1m. a fine bronze wedge.

In QN 5D at 0.70 there appear fine slabs of dressed stone. Traces of fire. Sherds: rough ware greyish or reddish.

The constructions are generally on this area poorly preserved, consequently little homogeneous and hard to read. In the rock in QN 11 D a sort of small basin is cut, a sure sign that this place was inhabited. Now in QN 11-12 there are only tombs cut into the rock, the dwellings which necessarily covered them have therefore been entirely destroyed.

QN 9 E ashes fairly abundant appearing around 0.60.

Pt 8 QN 6 E) inv. 3519 0.90 a fine piece of Mycenaean pottery, base of a very large amphora, no doubt.

Several fragments of votive ladles at various points.

Pt 9 Under a thick floor (6 cm) hard in QN 6, c. 0,80, find of E

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

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