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 7 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.

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ENK. 61

Tuesday 7 November 1961Increase in the number of pickmen, which permits excavating the whole of the trench opened the day before. Twenty workmen are working thus in the zone between the roads E - W , that of the temples to the North and that called axial or median to the South. Everywhere, the archaeological layer of the last period of Enkomi is reached beneath the thin surface layer of arable earth. Several "pits" are delimited during the morning in sectors 101 to 105

Sector 101, spindle whorl and loom weight in t.c. common, of common type, at 0m

Uncovered dressed ashlar blocks to the South of the E-W road of the Temple.

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

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