Notebook·34 CDF art. 127·1955–1957

Excavation notebook for the 9th and 10th seasons at EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in French and German. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 102 of notebook 34 CDF art. 127 (Excavation notebook for the 9th and 10th seasons at Enkomi), handwritten in French and German. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 127, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 38Scan 102 of 343

Written upside down on a loose or folded-out sheet at the top:

B 1 (East Region p 11): bowl or red patera with narrow, barely marked rim, double thumb-rest handle: Mycenaean bowl with "wish bone", not painted at Eurchou, fragment of Mycenaean bowl late. biconical spindle whorl in t. c., black fired

Drawing: hexagonal or biconical object with incised lines

B 4 (Region M 13): pottery with decoration of lines parallel, red or black, Iron I ? base barely curved, Iron I.

Drawing: profile of a base

1 fine resonant bowl with small handle horizontal, with dark red decoration - B 5 p 25: sherds from an old excavation: Mycenaean vessel fragments, extinct, milk bowl, Base-ring, pottery Cypriot mémoire, Mycenaean sherd with fish scales (drawing) - B 3: 1,50 to 2,00: mixed pottery: monoch. buc. ?, Late Mycenaean, old material mixed with parallel black or red decoration - (North Region N 15)

Pasted-in lined slip of paper:

Daily Report 15/10/57.

cook1
waiter1
water-carrier1
work-men24
women15
42£ 38.000
8 voyages of earth6.400
1 hour work earth1.250
Total :£ 45.650

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

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