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 29 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.

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of water having brought the debris of the City upper part (towards the cliff) into the part lower. Various accounts and arrangements for departure of Mr Aitken tomorrow, Monday.

Monday 29 September58._ ...

Excavation with all the men and women concentrated in the trench along the road N-S, east of the temple area. In the N part of the trench on a floor plancher of house and in the smoky ashes covering it: seal (drawing) well engraved, at 1 m 10 and not far from it, under or in the floor, ring (1m25) (wedding) of gold and pottery fragments iron still. - It is floor 2 (probably) counting from the present surface - The floor 1 has been removed here by our earlier excavations. and must be sought in the second trench to be made here parallel to the one we are excavating and finishing now.

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

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