Notebook·34 CDF art. 134-2a·1965

Enkomi 1965 Excavation Notebook, 17th SeasonJacques-Claude Courtois

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

Scan 121 of notebook 34 CDF art. 134-2a (Enkomi 1965 Excavation Notebook, 17th Season), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 134-2a, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 58Scan 121 of 214

Friday 15 October 1965Sectors 5.23 / 6.23 East The white floors superimposed without separation over a thickness of 20 to 25 cm, show that the people who reused them at the beginning of Iron I raked over, it seems, almost every trace of the period of the Late Bronze, the period in which this area was laid out, and further north, the two "wells" bored into the rock and the underlying layers (drains?) Sector 5.24 East, revealing the construction dating to the Middle Bronze of the thick and long wall oriented North-South, set directly on the rock and having a thickness of 48 cm - To the south, the walls oriented E-W are clearly later- (1). All the pottery of the layer of the the base is homogeneous, Middle Cypriot

(1) contemporary with floors IV / III

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

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