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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 53 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 53 of 214

A small head body of goat (?) is [printed: 25] found near these fragments and a piece of bronze in the form of a thick broken needle.

23 Sept= Workshop

trench of 28 m. x 4 m. called bronze trench. (nos. I to XIV) from the surface fragm. of bronze or VII copper in X and a little everywhere. Fragments of Cypriot bowls. In X a fairly fine Mycenaean piece. Elsewhere 2 or 3 pieces with wide red or black bands, Mycenaean I think. A small black fragment glazed. All this from the surface and down to 0.50, the depth reached by evening.

24 Sept,

In IX a piece of yellow ore sulphur , what is it? iron? sulphur pure Several small ingots of bronze or copper mostly from X to [illegible] VI In XIII base of a Mycenaean hydria Poin Steatite bead at 0.50.

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

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