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 173 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 84Scan 173 of 214

14153°/ In the corner room 1040 at S-W of the Hall, one uncovers, at a lower level of the large threshold, bones of a limb of a quadruped animal (equid) and a little apart, to the north, a large hearth with a bed of sherds of the period of the Rude Style (same level as 1319 of 1963). The sherds are caught between two blackish carapaces (hearth 1416). The bones are at - 0 m 70 below Threshold S-W Hall the hearth, at - 1 m 00 below the same threshold.

4°/ The stripping of the greyish floors in the courtyard-Hall South, to the east of the hearths confirms the existence of a superposition extremely dense, of the areas of the Late Bronze beneath the floors of Cypriot Iron I (cf. p. 86)

In the North trench, very numerous "pits", extraordinary density, in this area where the rock almost outcrops.

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

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