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 23 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 10Scan 23 of 96

Tuesday 11 November 1969The clearances stratum by stratum continue in trench 7 W, called the tablette, as well as in sectors 8 to 10, where the rock is reached, in the zone with the alignments of ashlar blocks

Sector 3/4, the rock is reached beneath and around a large "cupule" formed by a kind of very hard concrete dating to the Late Bronze (several sherds Mycenaean associated, as well as fragments of milk-bowl (XIIIth c.). The Late Bronze layer is of uneven thickness in sectors 5 to 7, but attested everywhere. Sector 6, we empty a kind of silo cut into the rock - Sector

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

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