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 83 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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Evening dinner at King Georg hotel. Cook lobre. — Return 9 h 1/2. (Letters to Rebeyrol, Neumann,

4 1/2 j. f.Monday 14 October 1957_ cold a few drops Excavation continued the plan of the superficial post-Mycenaean buildings becomes clear. At 10h rain interrupts the excavations for 1/4 hour. Visit of V. Karageorghis, curator at the Nicosia Museum and O. Masson. Show them the excavations. Kar. brings me the manuscript of his article on Mycenaean pottery (craters) and mythology where he supports my hypothesis of the krater of RS. I propose to him an article in Enk.-Al. II. — In Area E of the excavation at N building 18 two tombs are identified in the rock beneath the floor V (= first floor of bldg 18). One yielded a gold bead which I remove from the spoil and gold mount of a cylinder. Let's sieve the earth and set up a tomb team.

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

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