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 40 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 40 of 186

[mirror-reversed bleed-through from the other side of the sheet: 19

Michel seems to have chosen the two assistants well for Aitken, since if one remains very average, the other who is the son of the Enkomi painter, has understood within 24 hours the essentials of the operations and can practically replace Aitken.

A little free time before lunch is used to photograph the remains of the system Elevatory of the second screw found in the area NE — FEH 14 FEH 14.

The consolidated roof construction which succeeds the previous erected one will oblige us to fill some not very severe disturbances.

Aitken moreover has little hope for this area almost too eroded of architecture and where as a result the reactions risk interfering with each other.

Aitken installed in his new room where he can gather his abundant material which had overflowed everywhere.

No news from the rest of the island, which seems calm, no curfew having been announced.]

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

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