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 3 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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ENKOMI-ALASIA

Campaign 1954 (7th Camp.)

Friday 3 September Forrer arrives by plane at Nicosia to open the camp at Enkomi and arrange the installation. Saturday 4 Sept. Jeep arrives with luggage on S.S. Campidoglio. Sunday 5 Sept. Continuation of installation and preparations Monday 6 Sept. " " " Tuesday 7 Sept. Start of the clearing of the enceinte N-W, soundings 3 + 4: 1953 are extended, because the line is so erratic with (drawing) that with spaced soundings one only arrives by often making mistakes. So we follow step by step. Tuesday, 7 Sept. continued. Wednesday 8 Sept. Discovery of the large pillar of the north-west angle, where the enceinte N turns at 100 degrees grades (drawing) towards the S-W. Thursday 9 Sept. Surveys.

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

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