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 81 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 40Scan 81 of 122

Wednesday 2 November 1966Resumed direction of my area, trench South Street Building 18, entrusted for eight days for the eastern part to W. Forrer and for the western part to J-P. Nicolardot.

This is a day of detail excavation, with the help of some specialists and of women, to strip floors, baulks and various cleanings of hearths and walls, with a view to photographs and localised drawings at the most important spots (house with white plaster and scarab 286; houses of levels I and II studied by W. Forrer, east of the fine house, etc.)

Meanwhile, the bulk of the pickmen resumes the exploration of the north and south "wings" of the West Rampart area, with a view to finding where the 4th and 6th streets end, in the region of the "west-end" of Alasia...

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

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