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 257 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 63Scan 257 of 380

1 m 60 / 1 m 65 deep, and at 0 m 95 below top of large perforated block for tethering the bulls, skull with very short horns, with painted Mycenaean sherds- Mycenaean painted in red-brown and bowl on the same floor (?) burnt, floor of consistency very friable, light grey to white greyish, also identified in the sounding made south of the altar [2] altar surrounded by a large packing designed to consolidate it, at an advanced phase of its use, to judge from the position of the stones of this peripheral packing — Lower down and to the west of the altar [2], and under the perforated tethering stone of the sacrificed animals, uncovered a dressed block, with a protrusion on the south face. Sounding South Centre Hall: a kind of floor-paving of pebbles and gravel.

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

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