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 165 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 80Scan 165 of 214

Tuesday 26 October 1965Excavation continues in the trench North (5.01 to 5.09 E and 4.02/4.01) on the one hand, and the investigations in the layers of the Bronze Age in the Sanctuary. The position of the North bench with the bowls is clarified, and the small rubble-core wall perpendicular to the bench (middle of the North Hall) itself rests on the ashes of the Late Bronze. Extraordinary abundance of black ashes, in the deep layer located below topographic pts 1174/1175, at 35 cm below the base of the blocks forming the bench The small N-S wall is no more than 40 cm in height; east of this small wall, one uncovered only a rubble-core fill (filling) irregular, which served as support for the floor of the Sanctuary of the Cypriot Iron I

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

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