Notebook·34 CDF art. 136-2·1963

Enkomi excavation notebook 1963, Jacques-Claude CourtoisJacques-Claude Courtois

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Handwritten in French and German. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 151 of notebook 34 CDF art. 136-2 (Enkomi excavation notebook 1963, Jacques-Claude Courtois), handwritten in French and German. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 136-2, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 36Scan 151 of 380

In the S-E corner of the vast Hall, uncovered a series of foundations in rubble, delimiting a locus (?) or a small room, less regularly laid out than the N-W corner room

Friday 4 October 1963It was in this "sacristy" (= HOLY of HOLIES ?) or "treasury" that there first appeared the rim of a krater with oblique handles, apparently painted, at 6h 40, then while excavating carefully around the krater to better clear it, at 6h 55 one struck with the point of the knife the end of the left horn of the statuette in bronze of the god venerated in the Sanctuary of the Centaurs, the top of the horn lying at 0 m 80 of depth. The statuette lies in an agglomerate of very hard clayey earth

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

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