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 55 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 28Scan 55 of 226

centimetres of brown earth, then thick red layer resting still on a thin layer burnt

Drawing: stratigraphic section showing a wall resting on hatched soil layers with depth scale on the right; labels: Wall; Burnt layer; Brown earth; Red earth; Burnt layer; Brown earth; 0; 1 m; 1,10; 1,42; 1,55

Zone 8 E, large hole bordered, to the south, by an upright slab supported by 2 vertical posts and resting on a step.

Drawing: upright hatched slab framed by two vertical posts on a horizontal base] It is no doubt the entrance,

still closed, of a tomb robbed from the top. The pottery is rare but includes a lamp almost complete and a fragment of another.

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

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