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 142 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 61Scan 142 of 343

Extension of Tr II: RoadRoad reached at A1 and A2 elsewhere, it is destroyed by the padjia which run on all along the trench; The road appears [illegible] in the section to the W., at A10/A12. Level 100 reached. the excavation is resumed over the whole width of Tr II.

At Pt 59 (A 6), abundant Late Bronze pottery so it is indeed a padjia. Elsewhere, the Iron Age material is predominant.

Pt 60: tomb probably excavated formerly, at C 3, against the edge W. of the trench; in the dromos, numerous fragments of a bronze object, bichrome sherds, red on black and others Middle Bronze.

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

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