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 81 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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In the continuation of the stripping of the area 1348, with the engraved ivory, one finds three spindle whorls or biconical beads in steatite, two engraved with oculate circles, of medium size (1) or small (2), with sherds of Late Cypriot III

Wednesday 6 October 1965Overcast sky, ground soaked as a result of the rain of the previous evening and night. Nevertheless, one excavates from 6h to 10h, at which time the rain falls again and redoubles in intensity, for several hours. The stripping of the balk left above the channel, east of the threshold of the West door, leads to the uncovering of a remarkable level of bricks orange and red and of fragments of beams carbonised (= level of the Close Style, of

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

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