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 299 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 74Scan 299 of 380

contacts 6 x 6 on card.

Monday 28 October 1963Last day of the campaign in Cyprus: tidying up the kitchen, dismantling of the tent and above all filling in of the whole western part of the Sanctuary, with the help of sand from Salamis, by three men and two women. In the West Paving Trench, the topographic point 979 at the two jugs, not yet removed, turned out to correspond to the south half of an individual burial with characteristic grave goods of a warrior of the Cypriot Iron I, with painted bowl in grey terracotta, bowl in bronze, very damaged and crushed, under the humerus right (diameter measured in situ = 21 cm) beside a bundle of four arrows with

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

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