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 149 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 72Scan 149 of 214

Thursday 21 October 1965In the new trench, sector 7.23 / 7.24 E, on floor I, between 0 m 60 and 0 m 75, we discover, broken in place a large pithos in red earth, with two horizontal-oblique handles; diam. of the base = 26 cm ; diam. rim, ± 55 cm The body is decorated with wavy lines above and below two parallel and horizontal lines ; a second vessel appears to be mixed with the large pithos, according to a base, flat, diam. 11 cm (c.) (drawing) with three parallel horizontal grooves = pt top. 1412

Sector 6.14 E, we note at pt. top. 1413 = brick wall in 5 courses, half-collapsed, bricks separated by a thin "cement" of brown clay.

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

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