Notebook·34 CDF art. 135-3·1962

Excavation notebook of Lagarce, 15th season, Enkomi-Alasia, 1962Jacques Lagarce

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

Scan 167 of notebook 34 CDF art. 135-3 (Excavation notebook of Lagarce, 15th season, Enkomi-Alasia, 1962), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 135-3, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 84Scan 167 of 226

Zone 116 E, boundary of zone 117, point 894, depth 1,80 m = seal in steatite, with representation schematic of a bovid (?) Found at the base of the layer red, above the last layer, of greyish-green sand - Ap Zone 118 E, the stratigraphy complex of the neighbouring zones disap pears because of a large "pit" (or 2 "pits" joining).

After cleaning, seal 894 reveals itself to represent not a bovid, but a perched bird on a quadruped with long horns (ibex)

Drawing: oval seal design showing a bird perched on a horned quadruped

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

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