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 256 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 44Scan 256 of 343

In B7 and B8, under ashy earth, thin thin layer of burnt brown dark material, then grey burnt earth; at c. 1.80 below this, painted sherds, animal bones, deer antler, Here we have a burnt layer -

In C4, excavation of pt 41 finished; tomb emptied during the previous campaigns - Further to the to the West, excavation of another tomb: pt 50, also looted - Good pottery fragments -

At pt 47, abundant pottery of fine quality; almost the whole surface width of the Trench II in A2 is reached by the padja which also overflows into A3, where appears a huge empty cavity under 30 to 40 cms of intact red earth - To the North, trench II cuts into the axis East-West road (road of the sanctuary) -

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

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