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 159 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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In QN9QN8They reach then soon at about 0.30 or 0.40 below the surface and form kinds of rooms square in millstone, poorly preserved and poorly built, where sometimes a block of dressed stone is reused. It is thus that the tomb 5 is provided above, with a square room of this kind, [illegible] [illegible] later than the tomb, but attesting nevertheless that the settlement was in direct relation with the necropolis, here as elsewhere in Enkomi. Floors around 0.60 appear in QN9 There are moreover there traces of fire abundant on this floor which comes abutting against the first well built wall that we meet in this area and which is of dressed stone and seems older than the rubble walls. But above this 1st floor no sherds very characteristic: whitish rough ware of sub-Mycenaean appearance. In below; base ring ware and fr. of Cypriot bowls.

Then we find cisterns (?) of small size and dug at 1 m., sometimes less, into the rock.

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

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