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 177 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.

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Wednesday 27 October 1965The excavations continue in the trench North, with a N-E wind, while the stratigraphic clearance continues in the Sanctuary, where one reaches everywhere the ashy layers of the Bronze Late: in zone 1132, around the neck of pithos 914, in the N-W corner at last one manages to identify clearly the layers IV, V, VI, grey to black-grey, very ashy; the floors are beigegreyish, soft or even crumbly, and always covered with a mattress of ashes and charcoal more or less abundant. From the ash layer V, one meets Mycenaean pottery III B of fine make. The same observation was made in the sounding carried out in the afternoon between the

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

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