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 71 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 16Scan 71 of 380

Monday 23 September 1963

Opening of the excavations all along the EAST trench, squares 2.05 to 2.24 and 3.25 to 3.27, with 46 workmen and 6 girls, 2 boys, including a student from the Economical Gymnasium, intended to help J-P. Nicolardot. In the Sanctuary area, very few sherds, even coarse ones, in the first layer below the present surface, down to 0 m 40 depth. However, the clearing by the women of the part of the Hall of the Bulls 1962 not yet completed in the trench 2.25/2.27 uncovered fragmentary, fairly typical pottery, including a spoon or ladle in t.c. 99 at 0 m 90 with bronze fragment.

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

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