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 6 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 11Scan 6 of 72

1954

fever on combined with a sore throat – but to-day, monday, I am back on the dig were during the half of Saturday Michael had to manage alone - and he did quite well. He is a great help to me and I am sorry for him that oficially he continues to get paid f by the Antiquities Departement (a bare 14 £ per month !!) and we will only refund the amount paid by the Ant. Dep. for the time he was working with us. To take a Bakschish from us would constitute „a punishable offence" on his side ... The plot we are digging in now, i.e. to the N of our

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

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