Notebook·34 CDF art. 129-1·1958

Notebook of Roger Kuss, Enkomi excavations, 11th seasonR. Kuss

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

Scan 103 of notebook 34 CDF art. 129-1 (Notebook of Roger Kuss, Enkomi excavations, 11th season), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 129-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 51Scan 103 of 186

in the south face on wall of S. -1.70 very fine section of plastered brick (face W) (2 cm) trench 40 - positive react. (announced well) in south part. a N-S wall, fine masonry W face, large cut, excellently joined level cut by fine lime floor (10 th.) at -1.60. very poor joint of the perpendicular wall or may be effect of very violent destruction. in front of the fine masonry wall, with neck, level of the floor at -1.60, b large-sized jar whose body was set from the outset in a hollow of the rock. floor made in several stages, traces of fragmented levels in the fill. (probably interior courtyard or office room added on the exterior face of fine masonry trench 41 - in progress trench 42 - react. N-S street in W, resumption of the walls after the destruction layer following same alignment in E, under original floor -1.87, sketch of tomb (1.60 x 1.10) deliberately unfinished before construction of the floor.

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

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