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 87 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 43Scan 87 of 184

Thursday 3 November 1966In the fine house 286 with the plaster white, the clearing of the brick collapse in the S-W room at silo-well 107, a key group of finds is uncovered including a wavy-line bowl, "Canaanite" jars and the superb COMPLETE BRONZE KNIFE

Drawing: outline of a knife with curved blade and flared hilt

l. 18 cm 5, pt. 1517 at -1 m 45 (1) at 0 m 75 west of the painted jug with strainer spout, whose base rests at the same level as the knife, whose type recalls rather the forms of the Urnfields European, much more than the models and Aegean prototypes ( this new knife is to be compared with one of those found previously, in 1959, and still unpublished - it was much smaller, but also with a back curved,

(1) 1 m 30 below level of blocks of walls west of room

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

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