Notebook·34 CDF art. 134-3·1965

Excavation notebook of Courtois, Enkomi 1965Jacques-Claude Courtois

·

Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 13 of notebook 34 CDF art. 134-3 (Excavation notebook of Courtois, Enkomi 1965), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 134-3, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 7Scan 13 of 30

some very light ashes. If one looks at the levels that it passes through, this cavity seems linked to the period of construction of F3. As F3, Hearth F4 does not have two locations for the fire (see F1 and F2), but is surrounded, especially on the side east of its combustion and cooking debris (charcoal wood, fragments of calcined sheep jaw) P which have soaked into the layer of brown clay lying on a white floor, Q of very irregular thickness, Under this white floor we were able to note in section a thin layer of brown clay Moyen T. lying on the thick grey layer characteristic of the period of the fine Mycenaean pottery finale of Enkomi-Alasia. In summary we have, on the large grey layer, Mycenaean, a first hearth location (F5?) U which no structure delimits, but already situated in a level of brown clay. Then a construction circular F4 which contained fairly little of [illegible] combustion debris within its enclosure, but s'en est trouvait surrounded, which does not allow one to doubt its use, ni its function. This destroyed hearth F4 was found covered with a coating p of clay mixed with charcoal and sherds with decoration "Wavy line",

of cm thickness containing a burnt location intense black F5 ?

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

Spotted a wrong reading? Write to us or use alexis@ancientcyprus.com