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 37 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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in line E-W, south of the excavations of 1959/1963, a few metres south of the Rue de la Résidence. The westernmost trench is entrusted to J. Lagarce, the middle one to myself the eastern one to W. Forrer, who must devote himself to an architectural study of the latest levels of the site of Enkomi at the Cypriot Iron I, the location being recognised as especially favourable by the presence of Floor I only 15 or 20 cm below the present surface, and of remains of small low walls of poor rubble - In fact, by noon, this first day, Floor I is reached, identified and cleared. The pottery of Level I presents, as always, thick surface concretions which veil any possible decoration. In the middle trench, one very quickly uncovers the top of the stones of fine ashlar, of walls of the House of the Scarab of 1959, as well as a partition wall, in red brick carefully end coated with a thick white plaster on

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

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