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 27 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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These layers are in the southern part of the large building and seem to come from from demolitions.

Oct. 19Wednesday, 10th day of excavation. The walls of the fine building extending to the East widely, I transfer max. workmen in tr. S 2 to choose to reach the far end. east. - I begin to wonder whether this building might not be the palace and even whether it would not connect au to the House of Bronzes excavated in 1934. Indeed, the walls here and there show many analogies, even fine masonry, same absence of low walls of division of the beginning of the Iron Age. - The N S street whose south end we have lost, might it be lost in this vast palace? Many questions. We must excavate! 2h sun: 32° C. shade 30° 5 C The 2 leaning column drums are locatednt at the site of a former tomb that we are going to excavate. The settling

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

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