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 97 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 48Scan 97 of 184

Saturday 5 November 1966The beginning of the morning is marked by the discovery, in the cylindrical well cut into the rock, but not built, se teur 207 of a group of materials of the period of the end of the Bronze, characterised by fragments of krater of the Rude Style with a tendency both baroque and realistic (bull with a strangely speckled fleece and spiral-shaped, huge and broad stroke of the dorsal line, etc) and of bowls with thin walls, of Close Style tendency -

An ivory comb, almost intact, is recovered shortly after, rectangular in shape, engraving limited to two close sets of three parallel lines, 63 x 42 x 5 mm. To note also three animal teeth (molars? of horse)

Drawing: rectangular comb with teeth at the bottom, two sets of three horizontal lines above the teeth, and a hole near the centre

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

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