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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 149 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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and probably leading to a tomb. Covered with scattered ash and blackish depth 1.40. Below some sherds, Middle Bronze.

West Extension

QN-1D at 1.10 a floor of cement, very well built: found on this floor fr. bowl, Cypriot 2nd style and piece of small bowl, Myc. late. Moreover other similar sherds appear in this area which looks less disturbed than the East section of the trench. The layers seem more homogeneous and down to 1 m. we have pottery of the XIVe XVe c. c. without later or earlier —

No sooner written this than a workman triumphantly shows me a fr. of basalt cup found in QN-3D at 1 m. 15. Now up to now these cups in basalt seem to belong when they have this flattened shape, exclusivelyto the Sub-Mycenaean period!

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

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