Notebook·34 CDF art. 130-1·1959

Excavation notebook, Enkomi, 1959Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 58 of notebook 34 CDF art. 130-1 (Excavation notebook, Enkomi, 1959), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 130-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 58 of 78

Weather. Morning 6 h ½ (sun rose) 7° C (Nic. 5) Noon 1 h: 24° C (22° C in the wind)

same workmen as yesterday + 3 from the village of in all 82 men (40 single) + 13 couples

Fri To Nicosia to settle affairs of accounts with Antiquities Dept. and arrangements with Megaw, speak about improving guarding, road along the rampart, air photographs etc. – See Ant. Cabrandi and purchase 2 small Cypriot heads for gifts and to acquire faience scarabs, Egypt. and 2 cyl. – Lunch at noon with Odile 6 h ½ sunrise and French Consul and Lagarce Interview in Nicosia at 11h superb, temp. 6° C with Archbishop Makarios, a refined and measured man. I tell him of the usefulness that the new Rep. favours the excavations because many hist. problems cannot be solved without research in Cyprus. Cypriot Arch. therefore not only tourist interest for Cyprus but great general interest for science at large. – Word in favour of Karageorghis. and his mission in Fr.

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

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