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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 89 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 43Scan 89 of 214

Near there, beginning of a wall of poor stones.

Exactly in the extension of the peg CCIV depth 0,90 , at 4m to the North of the large slabs, at the edge North of the trench, deposit of sling-shot (drawing) like the previous ones on the floor and slightly sunk in it. Inv. 2296 There are about a dozen which are not all exactly of the same size. pt. 17. Foundations continue towards the N of the large slabs; they will need to be cleared next year. Some (those furthest to the East) are covered in part by the floor in which the sling-shot were found —

around 3h30 the excavation work being finished, everyone set to cleaning. 4 workmen still digging at the ramparts.

10 Oct.while cleaning Molivos found again in the same place a dozen of sling-shot (Ch. Nord, pt. 17).

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

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