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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 57 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 27Scan 57 of 140

ENK 14-XI-61

At the bottom of the large pit to the north of Ptt 621 at - 4,60 m, uncovered a vessel in t. c. black with horizontal ribs on the base of the neck, with blocks of slag of bronze.

Zone 105

Drawing: schematic stratigraphic section with stones, a column drum, floor levels, bedrock, and vertical measurement arrows; labels: burnt bones; 35; Close Style; burnt surface of floor III C : 1 ?; WHITE floor = III C 1 (cf p. 31); 15; column drum; 26; 14; ROCK

Schematic section at the location of the enigmatic "cylindrical stone", coming perhaps from a column

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

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