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 223 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.

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The discovery of a clay loom weight fired (drawing) of the type common in the houses of Alasia, in this underlying layer, there appears an indication of the absence of an earlier phase in the Hall, whose construction does not seem able to go back beyond the Cypriot Iron I, a phase in which its entire history fits, from floor II to floor I A; the fact that all the walls that close the Hall rest on the destruction layers of the Late Bronze town, especially in the West part (sector 25 to 27 E) is to be compared with the indications provided by the five or six vessels typically wavy lines found broken in situ at various points of the large Hall, on the Floor II at the average depth of 1 m 20 below the present surface, i.e. pt. 1177, pt. 1132, , 1219

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

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