Notebook·34 CDF art. 127·1955–1957

Excavation notebook for the 9th and 10th seasons at EnkomiClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

·

Handwritten in French and German. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 244 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 34Scan 244 of 343

Continued from p. 35

… pt 83: flat bottom reached at 4 m 00 excavation completed (drawing)

Pt 119: pair of twisted gold earrings; near the pt 93, at 2.40.

In this area, fine floor at 2.00 of plaster white, very hard, 5 cm thick — under a layer of ash and burnt earth (as in the area of Pt 116).

West of Pt 115/116, North-South wall. West of this wall, fine floor of white plaster at 2.25 — corresponding to that found at east of the wall between 1.90 and 2.00. the dismantling of this floor seems to yield only Late Bronze sherds (or of these floors successive). From 2.50 to the rock: red earth, where there seems to be only Middle Bronze sherds. These observations are to be confirmed by a

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

Spotted a wrong reading? Write to us or use alexis@ancientcyprus.com