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 189 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 95Scan 189 of 226

the afternoon. I try to distinguish walls in the heap of stones of the zone 104 NT. The "pits" are a little less extensive than I had thought yesterday. The heaps of stones come from the collapseof the walls and perhaps of deliberate infillings which are very thick. We try to leave baulks where there are fewer stones, to get an idea of the stratigraphy - In zone 102 NT, the rock is reached - We no longer workonly in zone 101, last layer (the rock is cut there into a geometric shape, with a few sherds of Middle Bronze at the bottom), and in zone 104 - At 15 h, the rain forces us to stop again —

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

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