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 13 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 5Scan 13 of 96

In the pit, sector 3, an inscribed ball of baked clay, topographic point 1886, at a depth of about 1 m, in a large pit.

A third inscribed ball is uncovered on the 2nd floor, at - 0 m 70 in depth , topographic point 1887. In sectors 4 to 6 The stratigraphy of the floors is clarified during the course of the day: floor I, in beaten earth, lies at - 0 m 35, floor II at an average depth of - 0 m 70, it is greyish white, thin and friable; floor III, thicker, lies at - 0 m 95 or - 1 m 00, depending on the place, that is 65 cm below the level of the first identifiable floor (floor I). On floor II, a loom weight of baked clay, of classic truncated conical form

Drawing: drawing of a truncated pyramid-shaped loom weight with a perforation near the top

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

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