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 323 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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Various photographs; we open 3 shaft after photogr. of cover slabs.

27th dig dayWednesday, 13 Nov.57._ Fine, + 11° C. at 6h 1/2 Concentrate the workmen in one area, sector B, extr. W. – Surv. Willi. Kuss and Michaïl clear layer of skeleton t. 110. – I begin with the inventory.

28th dig dayclouds / and evening / threatening rain.Thursday, 14 Nov.57._ + 12° C at 6h 1/2. Continuation, grouped area sect. B, ext. W. Nothing to report. Pt. 108, cleaning walls, on the S T. 110. Here in the 4th floor, interesting painted frag.: one side bird in metope, rev. bird on fish: pottery called Philistine? depth ... In Tomb 110, in the centre of rock depression, the contents appear of the main burial, with already c. 80 vessels visible also 2 hollow gold beads and rython Mycenaean. Perhaps have more richer.

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

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