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Sea bath. - After resting, letters, evening dinner Famagusta. Monday 19 Sept. 13th day excavations. Fine, but wind N-E which hinders work and tires. Finds: 1 cyl. Iron Age interior. 1 cyl. Bronze to clean, kind of wig br. of statue import. but anc. cut into pieces (style orient. Syr. ?) - Organise detail excavations that Kuss arranges quite well. Leaves max. initiative to him and collaborators. Purchases Famag. and visit Commission, now Cypr.-Turkish. - Sea bath. - Evening Courtois arrived, with news of Affel., Mail etc. - Dinner, talk and 81/2 go to bed. - Night good and cool, no more small mosquitoes. - Morning engaged a further 15th of workmen, c. 65 in all. - Attack area « Palace » = Tuesday 20 Sept. 14th day excavations: Fine weather "Passage". wind hindering. Finds very meagre. Reconnaissance of new 2 levels little diff. from Iron above 1 or 2 levels Bronze. Side of the passage, there is a strong alluvial layer with gravel fine and sand as in the street 2-4; the surface of the pass. so later was invaded by water from the floods. (proof that there was no construction: place is therefore remained open. Moreover it is only the … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain