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 29 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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N (area, Dept. of Antiquities) where I think I recognise some graffiti. But none absolutely certain.

Examination Ir of the pottery (frags.) found during the clearing of the enceinte W. At first sight, none of the XIVe - XIIIe, all XIIe - XIe. I set aside a late bucchero frag. very typical.

At 4-5 m from R 36, near the late low walls resting on the cocinos (= hardened alluvium of the river outside the walls), there are frags. obviously later than the XIIe - XIe, which have nothing to do with the enceinte. They are found in the cocinos beneath these foundations and above the enceinte before it was found at this location.

Tuesday 28 Sept.54_ (16e day of excavation). 6 h : 17 1/2 °C. Continuation 17 h : 30 °C. clearing of enc. W. Sap SW narrows. But the line still escapes us. At the middle c. of the enceinte W seems to announce a postern or door with a chicane, c. opposite the street S of house 18. —

Wednesday 29 Sept.(17e day of exc.) 6 h : 18 1/2 C. Nothing to

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

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