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 49 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 33Scan 49 of 126

natural, immediately below the level of use floor thick, of compacted and cut brown-red earth at this spot. A jug near skull, an ordinary jug near foot (buchero) with remains of bracelet, bronze.

Drawing: stratigraphic section showing pit, floor levels, and a well; labels: humus; 0; 20; strat. fill grey; brown floor; sterile; 1 m 20; A 1.40; x; E; x pt. buchero jug. 1 m 40; 1 m 60; x; A; x skull + gr. jug 1 m 50; sterile; concrete floor in pl. at 1 m 12; well kerb at 0 m 95; Well; W

brown floor A = layer appearing on left and right in tr. L and K. all of the XIIIth-XII because tomb 4 is in place immediately below. and covered by this layer The brown-red layer A being cut at this spot.

L. 2.58 Tomb 6, same situation as 4 exactly. Immediately below the thick layer of compacted red earth (domestic) on which lies the surface of floor of earth and white limestone. Adolescent skeleton very poor condition, skull to the E - feet W. Beside cr. 2 buchero vases, dev. belly, gr. ordinary jug. hemispherical bowl, bronze, behind nape. Skull leaning against small low wall. Tomb XIII-XII. - The tomb lies just to the N façade of a fine building which crosses L and K between zone 66 and 56 oriented east. E-W.

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

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