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 15 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.

Page 16Scan 15 of 126

zône 24. No sherds. As sterile clay at 0 m 15 zône 25-26 not excavated, passage for spoil-removal vehicles. zône 27. Few sherds. 2nd mill. No later ones. zône 2 In place of the fine grey clay earth, there is light grey and whitish earth also sterile, at the same depth c. 0 m 20 below present surface. zône 28 - 30 some traces of low wall, poorcondition, present surface at below surface and descending to sterile whitish or red clay earth at 0 m 10, 0 m 20, 0 m 30 zône 28 many frag. ord. pottery 2nd mill. No of mixed later ones. zône 29. Many ord. pottery 2nd mill. + 1 frag. bronze sickle and spindle whorl terracotta 2nd mill Inv. no._ zône 30. Frag. ord. 2nd mill. no mixed. Starting from the low wall abutting at pt 29, white chalk, apparently sterile, between 0 m 25 and 30 cm. zône 30 to 34 1/2 no trace of low wall.

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

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