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 135 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 9Scan 135 of 184

After lunch on board, arrival and landing at NAXOS at 15 h in an extraordinary light on the site. Settled into the Hotel Proto then a walk through the old quarters of Naxos, followed by a first survey of the various late Mycenaean sites in the neighbouring region of Naxos, along the seashore, and on the hills, cliffs of detritus volcanic and of varied breccias, heavily eroded by marine erosion (this recalls and closely resembles the situation of the excavations of P. Montet at Byblos in Lebanon: at Naxos, too, the tombs are on the edge of the cliff; here it s' agit of very interesting "tholos" tombs with a short, walled dromos.

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

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