Notebook·34 CDF art. 123·1949

4th season at Enkomi, excavation notebookClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 118 of notebook 34 CDF art. 123 (4th season at Enkomi, excavation notebook), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 123, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 118 of 126

Summary. excavations 1949 In order to explore the central part of the town crossed by the E-W axis d of the entrance main (marked by ravine in fal.), I had a trench de oriented east-west, 180 m long, wide of 2 m, tr. L. It was then widened by trenches parallel ce which have a brought the surface to the width of the excavation to . . 6 m in the N-S direction. The E part of the trench, over . . m immediately at the foot of the cliff, proved to be sterile. The rock appears here de at . . . already under the surface. No building was erected there. At . . . m only from the E end appear seated on the rock at . . m two small houses dating, according to the fgt. pottery of the . . . . centuries. From . . m from the zero point a larger house takes shape, also of the . . . . s . . .

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

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