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 41 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 9Scan 41 of 380

18-IX-63 = in reality 6 W Trench West Paving

Several objects were uncovered: two bronze tools, needles or long pins, pt 970 at 1 m 20, zone 2 pt 975 at 1 m 40, zone 1, in layer grey powdery. Then surprise: discovery of a pectoral, at 1 m 75, pt 973 of gold, decorated in repoussé, in a "pit" with Mycenaean sherds of fine workmanship ...

Pt 974 sector 3, at 1 m 50 a gourd L.C. coarse red body lentifor me, and two small handles, beneath which was uncovered a paved area of large slabs, at 1 m depth

In the South trench Building 18 of 1959 (House of the scarab and of the staircase) uncovered of a bronze arrowhead with tang (drawing) pt 971 at 0,90 Inv. 16.06

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

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