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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 171 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.

Page 85Scan 171 of 214

Continued from scan 170

… this seems decisive for the belonging of the 2 groups of slabs to the same construction. There is no therefore no constructed tomb here but a tomb dug beneath the slabs. The sherds in this area include much rough ware, some pieces of late Mycenaean (one sherd of "cilician ware" notably) painted. All this above a fr. of floor at 0.50 in QN 6C and above the floor at 1 m. in QN 5C. —

Western extension QN -1 -2 sherds Mycenaean and a little Syrian. The Mycenaean sherds being rather late this seems to me end of XIVth c. Several late stirrup jars.

QN 3D near tomb 11 on the rock at 1.80 sherds of M.B. and Syrian it is a confirmation of what we had found last year. Under these large slabs, there is a level. M.B. The level of this construction therefore narrows to between the end of the M.B. and XIVth c.

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

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