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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 296 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 58Scan 296 of 343

Pt 126: 3/ from 2.00 to 2.10: very hard white plaster floor over the whole surface of the balk, with stones set in the cement - slight notch at S.E. (drawing) A few burnt sherds, calcined stones -

Pt 134: south of Pt 122, tomb with child burial in a recess to the East, dromos to the NW.

Pt 126: 4/ from 2.10 to 2.40: compact earth apparently burnt, with stones - Large limestone block - Pottery more abundant -

Pt 132: excavation completed; room very small to the East of the dromos -

Pt 128 Region below the point: south of the road, at -1.75, fine white floor with pithos and basin in situ; pottery Late Bronze from 1.50 to 1.75 and in the floor.

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

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