Notebook·34 CDF art. 138-1b·1966

Enkomi 1966 notebook of Jacques-Claude Courtois and Aegean Islands 1966 notebook of Jacques-Claude CourtoisJacques-Claude Courtois

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 107 of notebook 34 CDF art. 138-1b (Enkomi 1966 notebook of Jacques-Claude Courtois and Aegean Islands 1966 notebook of Jacques-Claude Courtois), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 138-1b, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 53Scan 107 of 184

For the record [ Sector W. Forrer - haematite weight, very fine workmanship (drawing), 1538 (Inv. 18.52) at 0,60, level II

Continuing from point 1491, sector 108/208, new sherd of a krater of the Enkomi type Fe I characteristic, pseudo-Close-Style or pseudo-Philistine, of sub- Mycenaean inspiration, with a base of series of semicircles concentric (= on floor III, in fine brown earth.

The study of the stratigraphy, here very complete, could not be continued by reason of the bad weather. Let us say only here, pending the 1967 campaign, that one could recognise, on the south face of a large pit, six layers of ash, from the rock up to the level of the threshold in stone, to the west, threshold dating from level II, and situated at 0 m 80 below the surface present.

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

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