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 167 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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<--double vertical line spanning 6 lines… same depth as far as I can judge. These constructions cannot be late. They are moreover 0.20 below the level of the floor where was found the treasure. The latter could, according to the pottery, be of the 14th c.^^. Nothing seems to prevent the slabs from belonging to a period a little older as we had thought last year for those found in Q N W. Above these slabs 2 floors, one 0.10 higher, the other 0.30. But it is the floor at 1.10 (10 cent. lower than the lower face of the slabs) which could be considered e.g. as the original floor. Below this one, let us recall, there was a lot of Middle Bronze pottery and Syrian, but not without mixing. The superstructures in this area appear quite ordinary, of rubble and are no doubt later, they cannot in any case belong to the same construction as the fine slabs. Note also a well no. 8 in Q N E of rectangular form this time and which is not yet … continues

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

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