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 37 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 16Scan 37 of 214

In casemate S. 7, narrow, uncovered a layer of ash fine grey, dated by fragments of painted pottery, rim of bowl of the Final Mycenaean, decorated with spirals black (Mycenaean III C 1 b)

Friday 24 September 1965In the "casemate 1346", one reaches at the end of the afternoon, the brown -red greasy layer, with numerous charcoal of scattered wood, and sherds of Late Bronze = milk-bowl white-slip II – Mycenaean III B goblet foot – another Mycenaean sherd painted red this layer lies immediately below a thin dark red stratum, with ash and charcoal (attributable to the transitional period Bronze / Iron, or Close Style) ; the floor is very unclear.

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

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