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 87 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 26Scan 87 of 343

Written upside down on unfolded top flap:

Cleaning of the paving in hall newly found A1, situated east of sector A1 and to the south of sectors A and B - In the east part of Sector A, at c. 1.70: Floor III, thick white floor; below - light layer of virgin red earth, then whitish limestone rock, in which the site of tombs is dug formerly looted - All this area the rock is at about - 2.00 -

Attempt to cut at Enkomi Alasia T.I = correlation between walls and published sections. Note Enkomi-Alasia sector VI floor I — floor I II — III III — V

Pt 29: in B4, - 1.70, loom weight of weaver's in terracotta in shape of a round case -

TombePt 30: north-west corner A6, depth: - 2 m small gold jewel, paving of a tomb = gold cylinder setting gold bead

Pt 31: doll's leg (?) in terracotta, a 2 m. north-east corner A4. In the vicinity of Pt 31, pottery very abundant: lamp, sherds "red on black" carinated bowl with black decoration; tomb probabl-

TombePt 32: scarab, in a hole dug in the rock, accompanied by pottery (milk bowls), - below 2 m; tomb formerly looted.

At Pt 31, under pt 31 and the sherds which accompany it, the rock is reached - pierced by 2 modern probe holes, made by the clandestine diggers.

The material found between -1.50 and - 1.75 has been collected and grouped.

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

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