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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 61 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 61 of 214

26 September

Stamp: 29

From the burnt layer, sherds of base ring ware, Bronze Late,

inside the large slabs, fragments of base ring ware XIVe c. approx., Late Bronze as above. Homogeneous pottery throughout the area: no recent sherds of White Slip ware. coming of ribbed pottery. Around the large slabs in the different zones distinguished in the paper bags to the N, S, W, E, same Late Bronze pottery, sometimes with a Mycenaean fragment.

A piece of votive ladle was found before my arrival at this area, towards the centre of the trench, I do not know at what depth. Likewise under the same conditions, a small stone tripod finely incised on the exterior and on the rim. Broken.

inv.

Drawing: shallow bowl on tripod legs with incised chevron decoration; labels: ] [written sideways: less than 1 m. above of the burnt layer.

incense burner ? perfume box ? according to Joseph, has been found

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

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