Notebook·34 CDF art. 129-2·1958

Kuss notebook, Enkomi excavations, 11th seasonClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 17 of notebook 34 CDF art. 129-2 (Kuss notebook, Enkomi excavations, 11th season), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 129-2, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 4Scan 17 of 57

Tuesday 23 September 19586h: +19°C.; 9h: 27°C. 12h = Sounding - trench 26: I photograph the tomb: dromos and closing slab in place

Drawing: section of tomb and dromos with measurements; labels: tomb 15 26; South; tr. Sounding 26.; 0,60; 0,80; 1m90; 0,55; burnt wall; here the dromos descends to 1m55 at present, suppose another tomb; slab; foot of the slab at 1.70 below rock slab; 1,20; on white calcareous floor; limit of the ancient excavation of the dromos; stone in filling; (tomb 10) at the height of the burnt or "brick" part there was lying on the back in the upper part at bottom of the filling of the dromos, skeleton of adult child (?) oriented approx. East-West with crushed bronze bowl (head) under the head and behind < skull; bowl; + three jugs along the left arm, Iron Age type (beginning (XIIth-XIth); north face.; rock slab here at 0m60 below the present surface.; N

the three vessels along the left arm: 2 are beige jugs made on the wheel, the 3rd a typical bucchero vessel of the beginning of Iron XIIth-XIth.

We find in central S part the intersection of the new street E-W with the N-S.

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

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