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 93 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 55Scan 93 of 126

Monday 3 October.20th day of excavations._ Fine. Engage 10 workmen + 5 women more. Make them a speech that increase of wage fr. 6/6 - 8 men & 4/6 - 6/6 women demands good will & good work & I hope they will respond. For I can't justify to pay mo higher wage when, at the same moment the governm. lowers its wage rate from 6/6 to 5/6.

Tr. NS (2) / no. 468 tomb apparently intact appears. = 15 Opening 9h 1/2, seems intact. N.S. (2) / 492 at 2m20 (drawing) spindle whorl, sherds mixed by village excavators: Middle B. Br. Rec. + XIII-XIIe.

Tr. I, Piq. 55 at 0m60 on near floor fine building, mould for pisé

4076?T. 5. The Mycenaean level below the level XIII-XII, is clearly defined and without mixing. In the NE corner, cylinder with stirrup vase + buchese anc. XIV. and 2 loops of earring & small ribbed gold bead … continues

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

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