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 69 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.

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wide, descends through all the layers above the paving, cutting through them, and at its base, the searchers broke up the paving to "find the treasure". — Under the E limit of the street where between the paving already 75 cm, at the other W limit there seems to be a paving at the same depth, covered with the same whitish levelling layer which covers the part of the paving somewhat uneven where the part of slabs somewhat worn. There will be so under the N-S street a paving which abuts the paving, which forms part of the square or courtyard in front of or in the large building supposed to the East. — I reconstruct: the N-S street, lower part dating from Late Bronze, would be paved and covered with a layer whitish hard levelling layer upstream (to the W) of the paving. The street was then raised to bring it to the same level as the filled E-W streets

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

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