Notebook·34 CDF art. 134-3·1965

Excavation notebook of Courtois, Enkomi 1965Jacques-Claude Courtois

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

Scan 5 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.

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mixed with charcoal but homogeneous over the whole surface 911. E Removal of this clay layer revealed a new area made of sherds laid flat and contiguous, similar to F1: this is hearth F2 F However the plan of F2 2 is clearer, better preserved we have two distinct fire areas. One, situated in the west half, consisting of very tightly packed sherds, forming a roughly square surface , rounded at the corners, with in its centre an area of clay G. (Dimensions of F2: 1m along the east-west axis, eighty-five centimetres along the north-south axis.) The second half to the east is less well covered with pottery. Its centre is occupied by a deposit grey-black, very ashy H, the sherds there are very calcined The clarity of the plan of this hearth F2 consisting of two parts explains F1, which, less well preserved to the east, left nevertheless one to guess the same arrangement in two hearths distinct, because of the shift towards the west of what one could estimate as its centre. B The pottery fragments used for F2 are similar to those of F1. Note one painted sherd

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

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