Notebook·34 CDF art. 138-1a·1966

Enkomi excavation notebook, 1966, CourtoisJacques-Claude Courtois

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 107 of notebook 34 CDF art. 138-1a (Enkomi excavation notebook, 1966, Courtois), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 138-1a, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 53Scan 107 of 122

For the record [ Sector W Forrer haematite weight very fine workmanship (drawing), 1538 (Inv. 18.52) at 0,60, level II Following point 1491, sector 108/208, new sherd of a krater of the Enkomi Iron I type, pseudo-Close-Style or pseudo-Philistine, inspired by sub- Mycenaean, with a base of series of semicircles concentric (= on floor III, in fine brown earth. The study of the stratigraphy, here very complete, could not be continued owing to the bad weather. Let us say only here, while awaiting the 1967 campaign, that one was able to recognise, on the south face of the large pit, six layers of ash, from the rock up to the level of the stone threshold, to the west, threshold dating from level II, and situated at 0 m 80 below the surface present.

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

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