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 59 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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At the base of a "wavy line" period wall, E-W in rubble, and against the fine N-S wall, discovery of a long bronze knife with curved blade and ivory handle with annular terminal; three bronze rivets hold the ivory of the handle on the tang. The total length is 25 cm. The object has unfortunately been broken into three pieces. cf. p. 37 = 1951 at - 1 m 25. -> [non?] Associated sherds = rims of bowls of the Close Style or Mycenaean III C 1, recovered a few centimetres to the south _

In the morning of Saturday 24 October, one continues the clearing of the old floors of the Cypro- Iron I (floor IV) in the "chambers" which surround the house of the knives with bronze. Little or no ash here, by contrast with what is observed elsewhere, and in the same quarter 6 W.

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

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