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

Continued from scan 5

… the South rampart to the S and the cliff to the E. Tomorrow we finally begin to excavate this region abandoned Friday evening by Aitken, who is examining now at another area of 640 m² situated in front of the house, and bounded to the W by the Temple area and to the south by the EW trench.

This area seems to be the most W part that we can study, since according to Aitken the rock there is already too deep and his equipment no longer reacts sufficiently.

So in all probability, we will not be able to examine and excavate only in the East half of the town where the rock lies higher.

The very great dispersion of the observed points rarely allows them to be grouped, and it will be necessary to proceed by very numerous small trenches, for which I think it useless to remove the unimportant earth before your arrival.

You will then be able to decide which of them are to be backfilled after recording, by means of the tractor, and which on the contrary will be extended.

I am returning this evening to Limnia and Ayios Sergios to confirm the number of workmen planned and probable but I do not fear any difficulty regarding this question. —

A letter from Contenson announces his arrival here and he will be able to take over the archaeolog. part of the staff.

— House. Your room is ready to receive you although I am not very sure of the order in which I had the furniture put.

Personally I occupy my room as in the past, and the only difficulty that arose concerns Aitken.

I had originally installed him in the Contenson's room, leaving it to the latter and to me to itself divide between my room and the studio planned as a common room.