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 205 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 3Scan 205 of 226

1,25m to 1,60m: two sherds of fine milk bowls comefrom the "pit", where were found fragments of the same vessels. Apart from that, a "bucchero" sherd and base of a jug neck without decoration with grooves at the base of the neck (Cypriot Iron I).

Below this depth of 1,60m, the "pit", enlarged, has caused mixing. However, it seems that this is indeed the level corresponding to the period of the "close-style" Sherd of buff-coloured t.c., fine, well fired, painted in brown (very faded) with a bird. Other sherds of the same vessel, with simple bands. Sherd in cream-pink t.c. , whitish slip, matt red paint, flaking: band and

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

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