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 85 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.

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which seems to lead to a well a pit filled with stones (the earth gives way little by little under the feet of the digger), cylinder in steatite, completely worn. Da Nearby, pieces of colour- ing matter purple (Analysis)

Zone 7 NT, in the corner N E, under the witness: cavity partly built, partly cut into the rock, and covered by a slab on which the witness rests - The earth near the S side of the slab is very loose, which suggests that it is the end of a sounding which would have stopped on finding that the cavity was not a tomb but a well. It is decided to remove the witness, after having photographed it, for there is the equivalent alongside in the form

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

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