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 133 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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stones, one frag. has large bands painted red.

QN 6 E at 1 m 40 (under a floor at 1,10) Middle Bronze sherds Syrian and red on black ware, not mixedwith later sherds which may, with those of the path and of the concrete in QN 7 constitute a level of the Middle Bronze. This also corresponds to the sherds of Middle Bronze found under the floor at 1.10 in QN 5 D near the dressed stones. This floor is interesting because it seems to mark a fairly clearly distinct limit of level at this point: above the floor Cypriot bowl, below, red lustrous white black plain of the Middle Bronze. There seems to be a door threshold here, on the floor at 1.10, Note that the 2 floors in 6 and 5 under which pure Middle Bronze is found, are at the same depth 1.10,

In QN 6 D a cistern no. 5 over which late foundations pass. Inside at 2 m depth 1 piece of apparently geometric (?) but in reality Late Mycenaean at 2 m. 60 Syrian pottery (Schaeffer) at 2

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

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