Notebook·34 CDF art. 126-1·1954

Excavation notebook, 7th season Enkomi-AlasiaClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

·

Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 10 of notebook 34 CDF art. 126-1 (Excavation notebook, 7th season Enkomi-Alasia), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 126-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 13Scan 10 of 72

As you may remember, the big stones, constituting the rampart, were found rather deep in the sondages No 1 and No 2 (1953); in the extension of No 2 to the W the row of stones is ascending steadily and in the westernmost extremity, just besides (at the East) the old Dikaios-sounding), the stones are reached already after ~ 0 m 80; it may well be that the gate was at the point were now the field-lane is crossing the city-wall —. We will know better to-morrow when XX is deep enough. Another problem is how the western rampart in its N-S direction manages to join the northern piece ... ?

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

Spotted a wrong reading? Write to us or use alexis@ancientcyprus.com