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 206 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 110)Scan 206 of 214

Continued from p. 109

… in fact the protective fills are finishing against rainwater in the Quartier du Rempart as well as in the Quartier Nord.

All the tombs have been entirely cleaned, but all the wells could not be emptied.

Pérorine, aided by Forrer, is finalising the section of the QN. I inspect with Porphyrios the archaeological material which has been entirely moved transported to our store at Enkomi and which must leave tomorrow for Nicosia.

The pay and the farewells to the workmen take place under the tent which is battered by a torrential rain at about 11h30.

My final impression on leaving this difficult area is as follows (which may be corrected upon examination after cleaning of the sherds, at the Museum; I await especially from the cleaning of the burnt sherds): an important layer of Middle Bronze: immediately above the palace, which must not be much later than this layer. The latter must have been inhabited for a long time and remodelled. The Late Mycenaean (14th 13th c.) is in fact several times in contact with the sherds of the M. Br.

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

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