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 147 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 71Scan 147 of 214

We are gradually extending the trench northward, the new trench , → 7.19 North .

The excavation of the dromos of tomb 1409 with chamber , immediately south of the Street no. 3 , yields a jug handle in greenish beige earth, incomplete , inscribed with at least 3 signs of the Cypro- Mycenaean syllabary , and a small jug, of the type 1393 , among many other fragments of pottery . . . . . . The three stepped stone treads giving access to the entrance of the chamber . The east wall of the dromos appears destroyed by the tomb-robbers , (already in antiquity Classical , according to a pottery handle Greek removed from the dromos .

In tomb 1394 , fragments of vessels in copper or bronze , broken , scattered in the earth filling the burial chamber (3 boxes cardboard)

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

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