Notebook·34 CDF art. 126-1·1954

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

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

Scan 23 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.

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… department during the construction of the new road. The contact between the N-E enceinte and the cliff was destroyed by quarry. - Decision to bring Megaw. And to have it recorded by - Forrer. - Evening, saw the superb starry sky and the silence - far from the world. Read on "Sternenkunde" in small vol. by Forrer. -

Friday 24 Sept. 1954_ 6h: 18° C. 9h30: 29 ½ C 11h: 35° C. Re-examine E extremity of the N enceinte with Forrer for recording later.

Forrer observes stratigr. of the layers in contact with the W enceinte. In the alluvium: conos nothing: sterile, except objects introduced accidentally through the surface cracks caused by the heat + dryness, cracks which sometimes descend down to 1m. depth. Example: bell of sheep or goat.

Below this sterile alluvial layer, there is a layer 50 cm thick which constitutes a mixture between "conos" and "cocinos", which which is an archaeological earth brown-red, brown-beige and relatively … continues

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

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