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 103 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.

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on which stands a bowl, red earth, pointed handle intact. We take a photo and after showing the appearance of this untouched burial chamber, since the since the Br. R. XIVth or XIIIth c. B.C., we close it again with its slab, waiting to be able to excavate it, no workman in our present teams being a specialist. We plan to excavate on a day of rain or at the end of the week. Very pleased with this discovery.

Tomb Pt 41.A tomb with a dromos provided with 3 to 4 steps is uncovered at the extreme W of our excavation; it is revealed completely filled with vessels of winter (and is prob. looted, a patja being very near.

Pt. 35Inscribed bulla in t. c. at - 1.25 in reddish earth above the fine threshold or wall at 1m 50. The bulla is thus clearly here later than the fine building, follow 18 and the frags. of pottery also are post-Mycenaean, early Iron (XIIth or XIth).

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

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