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 262 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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17th j. f.Thursday 31 October 1957Fine. Cool in the morning. Continuing excavations S and N of house 18. We open the door of tomb 110. Burial chamber full of pottery along the wall and middle where covered by (drawing) of calc. slabs fallen from the vault. Inspected with torch and estimate that date = end Mycenaean or second half. — S. house 18 where we have found 3 gold earrings, pt 126 (and 93, 119, 121) I have the impres that it is a tomb and open to the sky or rather of a dromos of a large tomb which according to its pottery goes back to the beginning of the use prob. at the beginning of the Late Bronze. — Numerous vessels appear. If the tomb is intact, prob. rich. Continuing also in tomb 118 shaft Iron Age (beginning) with knife-dagger

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

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