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 79 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 38Scan 79 of 96

pt top 1960inv 21.28House of the bronze knives, Section EW seen from the north, room with the cylinder, weight and dagger in bronze:

Drawing: stratigraphic section showing walls, floors, stones and hatched blocks; labels: Mur NS (est) → Wall NS (east); Mur NS (Ouest) → Wall NS (West); Brique rouge → Red brick; SOL II → Floor II; III tessons à plat → III sherds flat; III SOL → III Floor; Jarres cananéennes et PWPW → Canaanite jars and PWPW; 1,20; * ; * ; SOL IV filling 1,50; V SOL 1,55; filling

To note that this important room has been pierced by two pits. The very fine white floor almost touches the foundations of the median N-S wall.

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

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