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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 63 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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at 0,50 below the large slabs in one of the corners of the cavity that lies in the middle of them, we find a marly floor of which only a fragment remains of small dimensions. Difficult to explain this floor in the middle of these large slabs in tombs. These well cut at their upper part are roughly squared below

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At the S.-W. corner of these tombs slabs traces abundant of ash (hearth ?) at the same level as the layer of burning. Other stones towards the middle and the west of the trench are in the continuation of the large slabs. It is perhaps a fairly large building which could have been bordered towards the exterior (to the South) by a road: one sees a floor indeed which could have been a causeway and which passes at 0.80-90 along the slabs towards the South.

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Under the burning layer towards the East of the large slabs, 1 piece red on black ware ; 2 good pieces Mycen. XVe century I think.

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

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