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 163 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 163 of 343

Written upside down on unfolded top flap:

Pt 67: B1, south half, 1.50 = fragment of crucible wall.

Pt 68: AII, 1.30: spindle-shaped object of lead.

Drawing: top and profile views of a spindle-shaped object

In A2, one found, north of the pisé Pt 47, wall of kiln, red and black fired earth, set on stone in the fired earth - corresponding to the layer of ash penetrating under pisé in the section between A2 and A1 to the East - on the East square of pt 64, the floor is of pisé -

Sector B1/B2, Tr II: Floor I - (0.40, base: 0.70) Pt 58 Floor II - (1.00: base) Pt 64

Sector A, Tr II: Floor I - (0.60) Pt 52, (0.70) Pt 49, (0.60) Pt 54 Floor II - (1.30) Pt 68, (1.25) Pt 69, (1.20) Pt 70

Sector B1/B2: floor at - 1.70 of rammed earth coated.

Main page:

Stamp: 76

Material. Trench II

not preserved {A2 - 1.00 to 1.50 (Region north of Pt 47): apart from the pithoi, pottery of the Iron Age: jars with trefoil spout, bowl with inturned rim, bowl with base ring, cylindrical spout

Drawing: conical spout] with black decoration,

handle "wavy line".

B1 - south half - 0.50 to 1.00 (Region Pt 67) Iron Age pottery: bowls with base ring and black decoration, in pottery greenish, carinated bowl, bowl with wish bone handle (drawing) basket handle, wavy line (drawing) flat rectangular fragment of limestone -

" " - 1.00 to 1.70 (Pt 67, 1.50 down to floor at 1.70): palette of basalt, basalt block with groove Iron Age pottery: bowl in pottery greenish with concentric black decoration, … continues

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

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