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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 115 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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bronzes. This looks quite important. A Mycenaean sherd of fairly good quality (14th perhaps) found a little lower down.

Another fragment of axe mould, in stone found Q N 9 E at about 0.60. At this level and in this place a layer of ash.

Ptt 10 cylinder found Q N 9 E 1.00 in green stone, rather fine, Syrian. Sherds found in this corner: 1 piece of ladle votive, Base-ring ware, fragm. imitation Mycenaean. Inv. 3500

Ptt 11 Q N 9 E, 0,20 an arrowhead bronze Inv. 3501

The examination of the sherds was delayed by the visit of the French consul Lapierre with about twenty students. I was only able to examine QN 5, 6, 7 there I found between 0.50 and 1.00 c. a great mixture of sherds from the sub-Mycenaean (fairly rare) up to the Middle Bronze, red on black ware especially, whose density becomes greater.

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

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