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 67 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 27Scan 67 of 78

is only the result of an old excavation: the paving now extends without interruption over 15 m in the north-south direction and 4.. m in the E-W direction, starting from the E limit of the N-S street. - The slabs are .20 to 22. thick and .50 to .80. cm in diam., but we can only measure few elements still.

I am having bottles of KEA or a sort of Coca-Cola distributed to encourage the workmen to work quickly. In the hope of reaching the paving over the greatest w. and depth possible. —

Newlle observation: the paving runs under the E limit of the N-S street, is therefore earlier than the upper layers of this street, which belong to the time of the last occupation of the Town = Beginning of the Iron Age. —

An illicit excavation (sabotage) in one

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

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