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 65 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.

Page 26Scan 65 of 78

"place". Kuss and Mihaïl observe "walls" and conclude there were structures standing there before the establishment of the place. He I examine at 11h the location and find that it is in reality a large pavement paving of large slabs very flat and laid directly on the floor previously levelled by rubble (and gravel) with white earth. I observe and immediately have cleaned this first visible part of the paving, which extends over 10 m in the N-S direction and 1m75 E-W, is interrupted to the S over 4m and resumes over 1m50 abutting here against a semi-round stone a kind of huge crapaudine or base de mat

I really think it is the most important "building" uncovered at Alasia: palace or great temple!

newlle Confirmation: the interruption of the paving

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

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