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 29 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 13Scan 29 of 96

Thursday 13 November 1969Nineteen pickmen all along the new trench of the area at the tablet, uncover the surface of gravel and sherds of the North-South axial Street. Very many rectangular shafts are delimited and emptied. Those in the South sectors are not very deep, since the rock is only at 0 m 80 depth.

In the zone (drawing) , south of the alignments of E-W blocks, the pocket of brownred kramos descends deeply, homogeneous and practically without yielding sherds. To note however, a bowl handle of Myc. III C 1 type late.

The uncovering of the N-S street, level of the Cypriot Iron I, continues in the sectors 102 to 108: a widening towards the west is brought to light in 102/103:

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

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