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 87 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 43Scan 87 of 122

Thursday 3 November 1966In the fine house 286 with the whitewashed plaster, the clearing of the mud-brick collapse in the S-W room at silo-well 107, a major group of finds is uncovered including a wavy-line bowl, "Canaanite" jars and the superb COMPLETE BRONZE KNIFE

Drawing: outline of a curved knife with a vertical line across the blade

(1) l. 18 cm 5, pt 1517 at -1 m 45 at 0 m 75 west of the painted jug with strainer spout, whose base rests at the same level as the knife, whose type fairly recalls the forms of the European Urnfield cultures, much more than the models and Aegean prototypes ( this new knife is to be compared with one of those found earlier, in 1959, and still unpublished – it was much smaller, but also with a curved back, ).

(1) 1 m 30 below level of wall blocks west of room

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

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