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 99 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 47Scan 99 of 140

Tuesday 21 November 1961Resumption of the excavations on the area, barely wetted by the rain of the previous evening and night.

Zone 134, the thick white floor (7 to 9 cm) covered by a bed of black ash is the earliest: it rests directly on the sterile dark red clay overlying the surface of the rock. The burnt layer is at -1,45 the white floor between 1 m 50 and 1 m 58 the sterile red layer between 1 m 60 and 1,75 (natural rock) # idem, zone 24 of 1962 pt 851/953

At the limit of zones 133/134, fragments of animal figurines, very different types pt. 683 at -1 m 45 (including rhyton head inv. 1962 no. painted bovid C R III in " Pit " or II)

Zone 138, upperr white floor at -1 m 55 and lower white floor at -1 m 75 (surfaces)

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

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