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Notebook·34 CDF art. 134-1·1961

Topographic point book (points 564 to 698), South Area, Enkomi 1961H. de Contenson

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

Scan 21 of notebook 34 CDF art. 134-1 (Topographic point book (points 564 to 698), South Area, Enkomi 1961), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 134-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 10Scan 21 of 140

Thursday 9 November 1961Sector 105/106, at 0m90 depth, in layer of compact red clay, human face modelled on pottery, with protruding nose and facial features painted (eyes black, neck) in black: fragment pt. 581 mouth, lips red of rhyton? Inv. 88 (drawing)

Sector 101, pt. 582 hearth with accumulation of pottery typical of the "wavy lines" period (or Myc. III C:2 at 1m10 depth = Cypr. IRON I)

Sector 104, stylised idol arms spread. pt. 583, depth?

Sector 101, the fine thick white floor is uncovered at 1m70 depth, at the foot of the fine bossed wall

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

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