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 275 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 Hall, below the Iron I layers. The relation of the stratigraphy observed in the Cella of the god of the ingot, by comparison with the various clearly identified floors in the eastern zone of the Hall, where the floor of gravel covered with ash with sherds characteristic of the Close Style or Mycenaean III C 1 b serves as a valuable chronological marker, for the layer immediately underlying to that which contained the statue 1142 of the ingot. This observation, together with the architectural observations made in the sounding "Cella", confirms the attribution to Mycenaean III C 2 or the period of the acme of the "wavy line - Granary style" ( = puits de Kition 1959 BCH , of the stratum of the god of the ingot, despite the presence of the spiral krater 1145, moreover of very clearly late manufacture (heavy spirals)

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

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