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 208 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 112Scan 208 of 214

Continued from p. 111

… riotes of style (p. 100) and quite impressive in this respect. One must admit, as I have already pointed out, that one may have begun quite early to imitate Mycenaean pottery, and no doubt clumsily But one cannot go back very far, not either, since this pottery is not found mixed with the Cypriot bowls and with the Cypriot bowls with the Base-ring ware (where the layers are intact naturally) on floors in places where there is, if I may say so, a need for contemporaneity They are sometimes mixed under the floors (for example at the level of the foundations of the residence with dressed stones in Q B 3/4). The stratigraphy thus explained not it would oblige to date back the settlement a little final and the fire of the palace and to make it contemporary with the latest tombs containing fine pottery Mycenaean. At the same time the Quarter of the Ramparts would see its hiatus reduced and the absence of fine Mycenaean pottery in this sector would be explained no longer only by a question of dates - since one would go back to the XIVe e.g. the main floor of the house with … continues

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

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