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 145 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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buried in this region. There will no doubt be a difference in depth- ness of the levels. In this respect it should be noted that in the trench 4N, independently of the East- West slope which is also marked there, there is a slight North-South difference: the depthof one and the same floor is a little greater (c. 20 cent.) towards the southern cutting face than towards the front of the northern cutting face.

In 4N 6 E a little east of Well 7 the floors are well preserved and the examination of the sherds there is a little more revealing than elsewhere: 3 superimposed floors between 0,50 and 0,80 c. Between the 1st and the 2nd of these floors a burnt layer. Under the 3 floors identical pottery Under the 1st and the 3rd floor Mycenaean pottery of rather poor quality. Under the 2nd bowls of Cypriot the 2nd style. I think therefore that the periods should of these floors should be close [illegible] to around the XIVth perhaps unless one goes back as far as the XVth c. the imitation of Mycenaean locally. Finally at 1.60 clearly below the 3rd floor, Syrian pottery- … continues

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

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