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