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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 211 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 211 of 343

Stamp: 12

- Rooms Pt 93, Pt 96, Pt 104, Pt 103: excavation and cleaning continued - - Cleaning in sector D to the East of Pt 103 up to the end of the trench -

B4, bench between Pt 64 and Pt 34: 1.50 to 1.80: fine greenish earth, then thin 1,80 to 2,00 layer of charcoal and ash [illegible] red earth, with stones, on which are laid the foundations of the fine wall to the East. towards 2.00 to ?: greenish earth with charcoal in places, elsewhere earth reddish with limestone -

Well Pt 91: beyond 2,60, pottery rare; towards 2.50, large fragment of horn - Fill of greasy greenish earth - Among the fragments removed above 2.60, one sherd belongs to the vessel of Pt 89. The abandonment of well Pt 91 corresponds

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

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