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 89 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 45Scan 89 of 226

At the beginning of the afternoon, we begin to dismantle the balk of area 7NT - In the first layer, (0 to -0,42 m), at first few sherds - A small piece of bronze - Under the floor at level 0, light layer of ash - Below, reddish-brown earth with debris of wall plaster . Small fragments of bone. A few fragments of charcoal - Then we reach the layer of ash (-046 to -0,59 m) - We keep a balk in step (drawing), so as to be able to take a photo more telling before the complete destruc tion of the balk - The sherds, very rare, seem to me however to date, as in the first layer, from the Iron Age -

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

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