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 35 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 17Scan 35 of 122

Monday 24 October 1966

Opening of the area in the town centre in the trench south of Rue de la Résidence 18 (abbreviated Tr. SB. 18). The 36 workmen are gradually being moved now available, owing to the new recruitment organised the previous day in the villages.

Thus the West Rampart area is gradually emptying of its workforce. We will leave there finally, in the course of the morning, only a group of women, employed in cleaning the trenches, particularly south and east.

As for the area opened in the town centre in quarter O. 6, = 6 W following the simple and clear nomenclature proposed by Mr W. Forrer, based on the division of the town into rectangular strips bounded by E-W streets, and the N-S axis, the workmen are divided into three strips

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

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