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 131 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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Conclusion of this examination It is not easy to detect layers successive. In any case one can note a sparse habitation of this region in the sub-Mycenaean period, and before it a Mycenaean level XIVe important but mixed with older elements (end of Bronze Middle and XVIe - XVe c.) these not forming either a pure layer except in the "road" . in Q N 7.

Pt 1624 November The area being almost dry except as regards the wells, the workmen are distributed over the 2 trenches. Found at c. 1.45 in QN 4 (area 1946) at 1.50 east of the dressed stones a deposit of vases and vase fragments including a flask like the one found in the chamber of Shaft 3. This looks to me like a late deposit on which stones have fallen, contemporary with the tomb found last year at the end of the campaign a few metres to the N.W. The vases are in loose earth, very crushed by the

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

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