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 5 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.

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J-C. COURTOIS

ENKOMi 1969

XXE CAMPAIGN

Arrival of the Mission, 1st November. Installation on 2 November at Enkomi-Alasia. Opening of the area on Monday 3 November, at 6 h 30 in the morning: along the North-South axis, sectors 7 W and 8 W, west of the area called of the House of the Bronzes. - Difficulties in hiring: at the beginning of the mornonly two pickmen are counted, and some fifteen women, who are employed to weed the area and its surroundings. - At the end of the day, a _head of bull_ painted in terracotta (H. Zumstein), point top. 1876 at - 0 m 95 in a fairly charcoal-rich context, of Ch Iron I.

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

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