Notebook·34 CDF art. 138-5a·1967–1971

Enkomi 1967–1971, 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 111 of notebook 34 CDF art. 138-5a (Enkomi 1967–1971, notebook of Jacques-Claude Courtois), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 138-5a, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Saturday 18 November 1967Sector 214 E, pt. 1644, at - 0m80 jar in common earth, caught in the thick ness of the dense layer of crushed red brick, well dated to the Late Bronze by some Mycenaean III B sherds, of fine workmanship, one even decorated with cream bands on red. This whole sector is very complex and the team of women is reinforced to carry out the stripping, reserving the hardest zones, for the specialist workman of the sections, Andreas, from Spathariko. [ supplement to pt. 1644: inside the jar, three fragments of pithos, of which two with \*inscribed rim of signs of the syllabary Cypro-Minoan.

At 10h30, end of the major excavations. Pay. Visit of the group Mr Smithers and Leleu, Council of Europe

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

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