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 231 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 57Scan 231 of 380

Monday 14 October 1963After the end of the major excavations, continuation of the stratigraphic soundings, according to axial trenches N-S and E-W, under the central Hall of the Sanctuary, with the two sisters Manoli, Georgia and Katerina, i.e. four women excavators. Meanwhile the investigations continue at the bottom of the so-called "kiln" in zone 2.22, and the tombs uncovered in the north of the Trench East, on Saturday 12 Oct.

The stripping of the subsoil of the "Cella" of the god with the ingot, yields very few sherds, in a very hard context, brown, compacted, a sort of crushed mud brick. A baulk from the Floor to the statue is preserved in the S-E corner of the "Cella".

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

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