Notebook·34 CDF art. 138-8·1969

Enkomi excavation notebook, 1969, 20th season, CourtoisJacques-Claude Courtois

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 11 of notebook 34 CDF art. 138-8 (Enkomi excavation notebook, 1969, 20th season, Courtois), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 138-8, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 4Scan 11 of 96

Thursday 6 November 1969The morning was marked by the uncovering of the same floor, in several areas simultaneously, notably 4 to 6, floor of beaten earth, with remains of burnt slabs and a series of stones which had served, judging by their worn surface. It is a workshop of Cypriot Iron I, with fairly rough walls, in rubble of fairly variable module Floor and walls are in perfect connection, especially in area 4, where small fragments of bronze are uncovered, pt. top. 1883 at the foot of the west wall, on the floor itself, at - 0 m 70 depth = (silk knife) Area 5, pt. 1884, biconical bead in steatite, at 0 m 70, on the same floor with the stones of the workshop's functional. In the neighbouring pit fragment of flat bronze axe (drawing) pt. top. 1885, at - 1 m 10

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

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