Notebook·34 CDF art. 128-8·1961

Excavation notebook of Henri de Contenson, sixth notebook, 1961H. de Contenson

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 3 of notebook 34 CDF art. 128-8 (Excavation notebook of Henri de Contenson, sixth notebook, 1961), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 128-8, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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ENKOMI CAMPAIGN OF 1961 (continued)

13/11/61Opening of a second trench, of squares 121 to 129.

Pt 617: square 122, 0m20: (drawing) 2 fragments of a wire of silver of lead folded back on itself.

Pt 619 square 122, 0m80 north-east of the previous one, in a hole probably on a floor: cylinder steatite, coarse (drawing)

Square 127, in the western part, small room overlapping with the previous trench (square 97) Down to 0,40, surface humus. From 0m40 to 1m00, red earth with white specks 1m00 to 1m10, [illegible] greyish earth with abundant sherds horizontal and a little ash 1m10: floor of white plaster 5 cms thick.

Throughout the trench, in the surface earth from 0 to 0m40, rare mixed sherds, not kept.

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

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