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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 192 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 95 bisScan 192 of 214

We found in QN 5 B a fine chalky floor at 0.40, higher than the large slabs and to the N of the building main. Other large slabs run towards the North but which do not seem to belong to the same building. Above the large slabs, northern area of the Palace hardly any superimposed floors as in QN 6 and 5 D. There is only the floor at 1 m. c. often under the traces of the fire -

3 DecQN 4 D Discovery of a tomb door (?) which outcrops at 1.40 depth. along the foundations of the "Palace" (that is what I shall henceforth call, the building with the large slabs), at 0.65 lower than the top of these foundations The street floor is at 1.95. We shall pierce it to enter the tomb without destroying the foundations of the palace.

QN 4 B North of the "Palace" (that is what we shall call the large slabs. soil in full whitish silt; no a floor at 0.40. Found 3 small pestles in t c: (drawing) We have reached at 1.45 in this area. and stop at this … continues

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

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