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 55 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 36Scan 55 of 126

Tuesday 20 Sept.49_ 9th day of excavation, fine.

Tomb 2 Stopped clearing, to make plan and section. Workmen working meanwhile in tomb 5. - We see that skeleton is lying in T. 2 E-W. (head E.) and very poorly preserved so that in places there is no more than a powder of bone. We will manage to fix the general position and location of objects. T. 2 lies immediately (dromos) of the quern in L 51, tomb occupies zone L 51 - 54

4030L 97, under villagers' excavations at 1 m 85 on rock, with large lugs (drawing) of bowl 13th-12th c. in the earth above, as a result of excavations clandestine old, mixed with Mycenaean 14th c.

4033468 (A 93) à scarab-shaped bead in carnelian at 0 m 90 among fallen stones and earth, excavations by villagers, sherds of bowl Cypriot.

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

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