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 206 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 8Scan 206 of 343

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… _ 2.10 to ?: brown earth filling a hollow in the rock and (drawing) a shaft opening into this hollow; excavation stopped at 9,50 - Abundant pottery: Late Bronze: Mycenaean sherds, carinated bowl with small horizontal handle, bowls with flaring rim and thin wall 1 handle and 1 sherd of milk bowl, fragment of a large bowl with flaring rim, interior decoration red dark: (drawing) and concentric lines

Pt 84 (A5) Tr Z) (green earth): Iron Age: fragments of bowl, black concentric decoration several sherds of same period, undecorated 2 coarse loom weights damaged by fire (drawing) 1 fragment steatite (drawing) engraved

Below Pt 84 - 2.00 on rock (2.30 to 2.50) Pottery, concentric decoration, end of early Iron- Late Bronze: carinated bowl, "wavy line" bowls, large horizontal handle, 1 base ring, 1 lustrous of MB appearance, 1 black flint chip.

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

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