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 245 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 60Scan 245 of 380

15-X-63

In the "Cella" of the god of the ingot the excavation shows the late character of the walls whose foundations do not descend very low and rest on several strata whose hardness is quite remarkable, as well as the poverty, even in sherds, most of the jars in plain ware .

In the trench South Altar 2, very numerous painted sherds of Mycenaean III C 1 with matt paint on pale slip are put uncovered in the thick layer grey with ash and scattered charcoal between 1 m 40 and 1 m 75 in depth . A - 0 m 80 below the level of the top of altar 2 or primitive or lower, small vessel in ochre earth with red slip, 1325 same layer and level as painted sherds, tr. North at the foot of the "cultic pebble", South Hall .

Drawing: profile of a stemmed bowl or kylix

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

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