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 173 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.

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(MILET continued)

What emerges clearly dates from the latest local Mycenaean, with above it the geometric remains, for there would be a hiatus, according to all the excavators (consulted in the evening). Took many photographs of the excavations and the architectural remains (walls in small rubble masonry, very similar to those of Enkomi Iron I). What astonished me most is the staggering accumulation of sherds of painted vessels of final Mycenaean type but 95 % of which are of unquestionably local manufacture (the Germans affirm it and it is certainly the truth). In our opinion, and as at Cos, a close stratigraphic and ceramological comparison, both with RS and with Enkomi, figures among the requirements

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

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