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 232 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.

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Pt 102 (hadja): handles Iron Age (not preserved) sherd with decoration of dark red lines parallel to a Cypro-Mycenaean krater, handles with black decoration, perhaps Late Bronze, large bowl almost complete end of Late Bronze or beginning Iron.

Tranchée Sud Tomb under Pt 99, below 2.00: Late Bronze: painted sherds, good bucchero, large fragment of whitish carinated bowl

Drawing: profile of a carinated rim and loop handle

Cavity under Pt 106: 1 chip milk bowl, all the other MB sherds: red on red, red on black, lustrous, painted white black on red

Drawing: two decorative motifs of parallel, hatched and wavy lines

Region Pt 93: from the point to the floor: mixed material final Late Bronze and Iron Age - including a fragment of conche - … continues

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

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