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 79 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 18Scan 79 of 380

Tuesday 24 September 1963

Second day of the excavations all along of the East edge, with 47 workmen over a length of nearly 100 metres

The clayey earth of the new trench 3.25 - 3.27 at the door of the "Salalle Hall" with the bull skulls, appears very homogeneous and uniformly slow to dig long time with virtually no sherds, between 0 m 50 and 0 m 65 / 70. At 0 m 50, pt. topog. [1011] small head, extremely crude and schematic, in t.c. Same sector, second head t.c. [1012] at 0 m 50 then lamp handle t.c. wall type pt. top. [1013]: 0 m 75

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

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