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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 165 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 78Scan 165 of 343

B8/B9 - Pt 49 Region - 2.10 to 2.30 - Middle Bronze pottery: red on black, red on red, lustrous, with a brown slip; bowl rim with lugs (drawing) Late Bronze: 1 Mycenaean sherd, a few painted sherds -

C6/C7 - Region Pt 45 - 1.50 to 2.00 (from floor / to rock) pottery Iron Age and Late Bronze mixed - One sherd is quite remarkable whitish fabric with red decoration dark:

Drawing: decorated sherd with concentric semicircles and hatched bands

C4 - Pt 56 (formerly excavated tomb): milk bowl, base ring, Mycenaean, large bowl with flaring rim, white slip and red decoration, sherd red on black degenerate: beginning of Late Bronze -

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

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