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 51 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 18Scan 51 of 198

Thursday 21 Sept. 1950 3rd j. d. f.

Continuation of clearing N. of the large building and examination of floors in large building.

Street to S of gr. B. I recognise from the regularity and horizontality with slight E-W slope of the layers of the street that there is in reality a question of deposits, brought by water The street directed in the direction of the slope must have, as a result of torrential rain, been, at a certain period, transformed into a torrent or stream carrying an enormous quantity of sherds, I continue the investigation. The post-Mycenaean period has it been characterised by a very humid climate as in the Hallstatt in Europe?

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

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