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 67 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 26Scan 67 of 198

Pt. 125 Seated statuette in bronze. Ht of the statuette at 0m 38 below the present and 0m 56 (same Piva) above the top of the fine seated one neighbouring to SW.

Drawing: section showing a seated statuette inside a pit next to stones, with ground levels and dimension arrows; labels: sol act.; 32 cm; 38 cm; haut du trône; sol présumé le plus proche; 10 cm env.; 2 pierres; pierres de la cachette (le plus haut); depth of the cavity dug into the old floor of the last habitation.

The statuette was buried upright in a cavity in the floor of the deep habitation of 10 cm (if we correctly recognise the top of the poorly preserved floor). Perhaps 4 to 5 cm of this floor had been removed by the workmen It seems therefore that the hiding place could not have existed as long as one lived on this floor. For the top of the statuette must have projected above the floor by c. 2 cm about. The hollow, the statuette placed in position was filled with earth then the whole covered with stones. Tomorrow we shall try to find the top of the floor beside the angle- … continues

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

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