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 149 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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we find near the surface the body of the street with the along its S and N edges remains of houses. The excavation in sounding 3 where we suppose the W door has been begun. We also continue in sounding 5 where there is a construction on the exterior, i.e. to the West of the West enceinte. Pay and sea bathing after having looked for money at the bank. Sunday 6 Dec. Post. Departure 10 h 1/4 to Kantara Castle, visit, picnic, return 4 h 1/2 to Enk. Exped. house.

Monday 7 Dec. Resumption and multiplication of soundings. Opening of sounding 18, negative. We place it more to the West between 18 and 17 to recover the continuation of the street of the temple towards the East. Opening of soundings 13, 14 and 15 to recover or clarify streets VI to VIII counting from the N. Widen excavations in the area of the supposed door S, soundings 10 to 12 and opening of sounding 19 at the intersupposed junction of the N-S street with the street of the rampart uncovered in the area called the rampart in 1947/48. Having "lost" street IV in sounding 18,

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

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