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 71 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 14Scan 71 of 343

B1: engraved ivory plaque; - 1.25 . Pt 24

Drawing: rectangular plaque with four spirals

Below Pt 20, a well-shaft whose top is at - 1.40 ; diam: 0.60 . To the South, cut in a block of ashlar, channel joining it. The courtyard is at 1 m 20 from the axis of the well-shaft

In sector C, the excavation had been started at about 0.75.

In the east half of Sector A, at from 1.25, approximate level of floor II, earth greener.

Material from 1.25 to 1.50 recovered; excavation stopped at about 1.50 in Sectors A and B and at about 2.00 in sector C, where the material between 1.50 and 2.00 is recovered also. In A and B, at many points there appear the large blocks of the lower architecture -

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

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