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 37 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.

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in an E-W line, south of the excavations of 1959/1963, a few metres south of the Rue de la Résidence. The westernmost trench is entrusted to J. Lagarce, the middle one to myself, the eastern one to W. Forrer, who is to carry out an architectural study of the latest levels of the Enkomi site in the Cypriot Iron I, the location being recognised as especially favourable by the presence of floor I only 15 or 20 cm below the present surface, and of remains of small low walls of poor rubble masonry. In fact, by noon, this first day, floor I is reached, identified and cleared. The pottery of level I shows, as always, thick surface concretions which obscure any possible decoration. In the middle trench, one very quickly uncovers the top of the ashlar stones of the walls of the Scarab House of 1959, as well as a "286" partition wall in red brick, carefully endui coated with a thick white plaster on

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

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