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 201 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 105Scan 201 of 214

Continued from p. 104

… of fire scraped by Molina) and under the large slabs: level of the floor 1.40 Floor of the dromos 2.20 level. It leads to the cavity already cleared and looted, situated under the great slabs and containing sherds mixed up by the earlier excavations.

General remark on the pottery A Re-examine the bags of sherds before sending them back to Enkomi at Gioghios's and from there to Nicosia, I am struck by the number of bags containing, at the same levels, pottery of all the periods represented here, and mixed by earlier excavations, particularly numerous in the North Quarter. Another general observation that imposes itself: the relative scarcity of fine-quality pottery outside the tombs, where on the contrary it is very abundant. Mycenaean pottery in particular, well burnished, is found infrequently outside the tombs, … continues

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

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