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 71 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 35Scan 71 of 186

at the E third of the trench, aligned N-S probably two bases of posts, made of rubble stones

Drawing: section showing a vertical post in a stone-lined socket cut into the ground; labels: poteau ?; sol vierge - 0.30

trench 15 - strong negative (wall) positive f. (cavity) floor - 0,43 supported by thick pudding light brown with limestone inclusions, extending down to the virgin soil - 1.20 on which one notes some doubtful traces of a second floor. no architecture trench 16 - weak positive (cavity) two thin limestone floors at - 0,33 and - 0,65 thin layer of ash on the 1st traces of burnt layer on the 2nd near the well. the wall rest rests on the floor virgin soil at - 0.70 curve N-S separating the rock and the

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

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