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 25 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 6Scan 25 of 72

light. It is in the this intermediate layer that the first sherds begin in an gen. irregular way, the first sherds which increase with depth, i.e. in the "cocinos" ( CC, see sketch page .... ) The mixed layer CN/CC in general begins a little lower than the top of the stone wall or at its level. At At the foot of the large outer blocks of the enceinte, one often observes a layer of brick-red earth with ( calcareous ) points white which is perhaps the result of the disintegration of the bricks of the of earth brick prob. perhaps from the top of the wall or of the filling between 2 brick faces. — Visit of Eng. Miller and his assistant. See 25/IX. Saturday 25 Sept. 54 : 6h : 18 1/2 °C. 20h 26 °C. Last night Engineer Miller of the P W D of Fam. came to see the damage caused by the earthmovers which have taken earth for the new^ road. He immediately promised to have the filled trenches cleaned out and told me

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

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