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 97 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 48Scan 97 of 122

Saturday 5 November 1966The start of the morning is marked by the discovery, in the cylindrical shaft cut into the rock but not built, sector 207 (= pt. top. 1485, of WF) of a group of materials from the period of the end of the Bronze, characterised by fragments of krater of the Rude Style with a tendency both baroque and realistic (bull with a curiously speckled fleece and spiral-shaped, enormous and broad stroke of the dorsal line, etc) and of bowls with thin walls, of Close Style tendency -

An ivory comb = Inv. 18.427, almost intact, is recovered shortly after, rectangular in form, decoration limited to two close sets of three parallel lines, (drawing) 63 x 42 x 5 mm , To be noted also three animal teeth (molars? of horse)

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

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