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 203 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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5 December7h30 The rain starts again, the weather is entirely overcast. It has been since yesterday really the beginning of winter. The breaks in the clouds will allow us to finish the cleaning and backfilling.

I note in Tomb 2 sherds of thick ware covered with brownblack paint: this is generally considered as Middle Bronze, but it has persisted here until this pre-Mycenaean period. (Unless that these are here the remains of an older vessel ) that the contents of the tomb

In t N 8 under the road and on the edge of it, 2 cavities in 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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