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 28 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 28 of 198

(continuation of examination of floors E 23.) This floor 3 seems to be very thick with strata . whitish and reddish, th. tot. 45 cm . At 25 cm th., there is a whitish stratum hard with irregular surface which one may take for a floor 3 A or 4 ?), two non-characteristic sherds on the surface of this so-called floor. At 45 cm depth this thick layer composed of strata of floor 3 rests on a thin stratum of brownish earth somewhat clayey, thick from 6 to 10 cm where it rests on the rock . The pottery frags. in this layer under or at the base of floor 3 (and perhaps 3 + 3A or 4) are clearly Late Bronze of good … continues

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

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