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 59 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 38Scan 59 of 126

Tomb 2 Replace the objects, photos + colour film. colour. Then exact plan of the S part of the burial chamber now cleared. - Then excavation of the part north of the central rectang. well. Level W appear 3 Mycenaean vases, 1 partly damaged by earth pressure. Level S (drawing) we recognise mt 2 skel. lying, one (with the gr. plaques gold) E (head) - W, the other W (head) - E. the feet crossing partly.

Tomb 1, excavation finished, tomb empty, except broken layer. To re-examine sherds.

Wednesday 21 Sept. 10e day. Fine.

Tomb 1. Jar at the base, centre of tomb, on rock (drawing), prob. 2e level. Elsewhere in the tomb, fragments milk bowl (XIVe (XIIIe)), red on black some serrated faience beads, arrowhead cornal., Mycenaean chip XIVe, very good Myc. XIVe Tomb used from earlier, end of Middle Bronze and reused Late Bronze XIVe. Above the tomb, white floor at the level of foundation.

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

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