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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 71 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 34Scan 71 of 214

Continued from scan 70

… to that of the other sides. Around 1.70 tomb in which one immediately finds a cup red on black ware (Middle Bronze); it lies below the 2e floor found in the enclosure of the large slabs and therefore represents an earlier level than that of the Mycenaean town.

Found in the large jar which is at 20 cm. above the lower floor at the middle of the large slabs: a chariot wheel (?) t. c. fragments of Cypriot bowl 2e style.

30 SeptTrench at the workshop bronzes

2.40 in VIII found base of vessel with ribbed relief (XII-XIe). One had already found near the same point fragm. of the same style at 1.90.

<-In V at 2.40 blue glass beads. near this one piece of Mycenaean red on beige pottery In VIII at 2.10 iron blade which appears to me to come from an implement, scythe or plough, and bronze handle.

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

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