Notebook·34 CDF art. 124·1950–1953

5th and 6th seasons at Enkomi, excavation notebookClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in French and German. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 117 of notebook 34 CDF art. 124 (5th and 6th seasons at Enkomi, excavation notebook), handwritten in French and German. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 124, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 42Scan 117 of 198

Thursday 26 Nov.No excavation. Work with the specialists in the N part of building 18 to finish and removal of earth. - Correspondence. See Comm. at Famagusta, errands, bank etc. Visit to Kuss at the hospital, who has an abscess and slight infection. Is better.

11th j. f.Friday 27 Nov.53_ Continuation of the excavations around temple area and at the N of bldg. 18. Also opening of a small sounding to the E of sounding 5 (W Sond 5) of the enclosure W where we have a "house" (?) outside the wall which, according to the pottery, dates from the Mycenaean period.

Pt. 24 (south "temple") accumulation of sling-bullets in t.c. (c. 6-700 !) (counted c. 775 at the end).

Pt. 71 (rég. nord temple NT) at 80 cm below present level and 0,50 from the neighbouring rubble wall, two small (ingots of bronze lying on the 1st floor from the surface, surely early of the Iron.

Drawing: outline of an oxhide ingot

Pt. 87 (envir. rég. N. T.) at 0 m 80 on floor I bronze statuette "Teshoub" (in same room prob. as the distance from pt. 71 = 1 m 90 | 2 votive ingots.)

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

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