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 79 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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then below, one finds again the konnos greenish clayey konnos, then a very loose and thin layer of a few scattered sherds, corresponding to the layer of sherds uncovered the day before at the base of the West Sounding of the same block W. Thus the double research, undertaken on each side of the large block of the enclosure wall, confirms the stratigraphic sequence obtained in the previous soundings of the same trench: namely that the enclosure wall with large blocks does not go back beyond the end of the 13th century, and that earlier this zone of the town was already inhabited, according to sherds and slag of the Middle Bronze and Late Bronze.

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

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