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 77 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 36Scan 77 of 214

Tuesday 5 October 1965In the "casemate" 1364, one reaches the layer of the Late Bronze I, marked by a large painted sherd of jug bichrome, below the base level of the wall in the internal rubble of the rampart. – Opening of a new trench perpendicular, opposite the Gate West, 8 m x 8 m, to allow study the junction of the Street of the end of the Bronze Age with the whole of the Gate, whose threshold retains the mark of slight wear.

– In the sounding carried out at the foot W of the large block O, one crosses the layer of the XV - XIVe centuries, marked by a whitish stratum, with sherds and slag – one of the sherds would be a rim of a vessel Mycenaean of type ancient, III A at least.

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

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