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 116 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 57Scan 116 of 186

Friday 3 October 18 men 19 women We have to reach 3 locations of floors not destroyed by earlier excavations and Contenson has it dismantled by a specialist for ceramic study. A fine join of original floor against a wall of hedgehog masonry along street EW The South face on street NS has certainly served as a stone quarry (see the two large stones either in place, but broken at a bevel) same room as pt. 203 (M.C. Cyprus) the pts. 210 and 211 make the place be assimilated to a forge cultic 210. flat stone platform of crane. crescent 211 " " bearing set of sickle grooves in hollow (mould)

Drawing: two pencil drawings showing the crescent-shaped stone and the stone mould with four curved sickle-shaped grooves

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

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