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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 123 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.

Page 61Scan 123 of 214

in Cyprus: spindle bottle, jugs with rare painted body blackish on yellowish earth, Cypriot bowl in basering ware, basering ware blackish etc. Piroini draws and brings in the vessels. For my part I have begun the inventory of isolated finds.

Furumark tells me that he considers the sherds of Pt 12 as importlate Mycenaean import coming without doubt from Cilicia (he attributes the same origin to fragment inv. no. 3019) He attributes to them a late date XIIe s., at a pinch end XIIIe s.

22 NovemberTorrential rain yesterday. We resume work today at 7 h. But the area this time has been seriously soaked, it is necessary to let it dry further and the workmen are all put on the extension West of the North Quarter.

Examination of the sherds inv. 3533 QN 5 D: a small head in terracotta found in the well of stones carefully cut

Drawing: elongated head with facial features

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

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