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 49 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 23Scan 49 of 96

Additional note to page 7:

List of pottery fragments associated with the tablet:

1 base-ring bowl fragment with handle, 3 milk bowl fragments (white-slip II) + about ten Late Bronze sherds of the "plain ware" type 1 painted sherd, possibly from a Mycenaean vessel of local manufacture Among the whole group of sherds recovered, none can be attributed to the post- Mycenaean period (Cypriot Iron I).

* The tablet lay in a kind of natural cup in the surface of the rock, at a depth of about fifteen cm below a floor formed of white, discontinuous slabs (partly in contact with the dressed blocks of a fine East-West wall (itself attributable to Late Bronze 3, and resting on the rock).

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

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