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 55 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 55 of 72

The ceramic finds made in contact of the As in the previous sections sect excavated in the southern & northern wall parts of the wall country the wall consists of an outer facing of huge stones some measuring across the nearly 4 m 3 m 75 long & 1 12 m/ thick 1 12 m high/ weighing is must app. 60 tons, and the an inner facing of smaller blocks. Between them there is a "filling" of hard compressed earth & stones and a cover with stones & upon which a layer of bricks to must make a even plateform from face to face of the wall, over its entire thickness of nearly 4 m 3 m 75. On this plateform was set the brickwall itself which has entirely very disappeared except for fallen parts (found on the & at the which The bricks had mostly been dissolved by the foot of the wall rain water or the floodwater from the nearby flowing "Potamos tou Kambia". The height of the wall must have been impressive, though we are at present not in a position to say exactly how high it was. With [written sideways: With its south & northern | ends abutting the escarpment | it enclosed a city-densely populated of between 50.000 & 10.000 inhabitants | city of the size equal to that of present Kyrenia & (for pop. 7.000)] its thickness of nearly 4 m and its massive stonefoundation of cylopean dimension it is one of the best preserved and most impressive for prehistoric fort townfortification so far excavated in the island & the whole medit. aerea.

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

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