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 143 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.

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area will be street IV or second forth avenue, the street to the N of temple area = IIIrd av. or street III, the street to the S of our N area = IInd av. or street II, and I hope that 40 paces further to the N we will still find the 1st av. or street I to the south of the area immediately behind the N enclosure. [Note: a diagonal line also crosses out the middle of the first four lines]

Verification done, the E-W streets ( I II & III bleat are distant from each other by 34 32 m 50: here is the record exact: Their width is very exactly (cf. in the 3 streets so far fully cleared, of 3m05, the street N-S also measures 3m05 wide.

The width of the blocks between the E-W streets is of 32m40-32m60 in both cases (block Bat. 18 and block called temple) whose edges are well preserved.

It is the street called the "temple" which runs towards the East

Drawing: plan of a North-South street intersected by four East-West streets, forming blocks; labels: STREET North-South; 3m06; 3m; "street of building 18"; 32m60; block of building 18; 3,05; street of the "temple"; 32m40; area called of the temple; 3m; street of the "votive ingots"; 56m80; (excavations 1953) begun; street; north area; E; W; N

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

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