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 9 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 13Scan 9 of 126

Observations in the trench orientation E-W or to the menhir

Zone 1 (extr. east) some traces of wall (?) or stones collapsed, lying on fine clayey earth . sterile at 0m70 . Ordinary sherds of the 2nd mill. mixed with very few sherds par. more recent . A weight. (Inv. no.= 5001 ) biconical (drawing) in basalt (or black granite).

Zone 2 , same pottery as 1. More constr. Fine clayey earth, sterile at 0m80 . A fr. Mycenaean or sub-Mycenaean, poor fabric.

Zone 3 to 16 no trace of any building, not even an isolated stone in the trench

Zone 3 , same pottery in mass of the IInd mill. some fr. par. more recent .

Zone 4. same pottery 2 fr. green faience, 1 fr. iridescent glass and 3 pieces (coins) of bronze . Inv. no.= 4002

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

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