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 117 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.

Page 57Scan 117 of 208

Tuesday 21 November 1967We can resume the excavation this morning despite the heavy rain of the previous evening. Sector 215 E, the average depth of the burnt floor scraped with the spatula is indeed 70 cm The earlier floor, thin white, under the layer of red brick lies at - 0 m 90 or - 1 m 00, and at the same level as the surface of the top of the square pseudo-ashlar blocks of the large N-S alignment (at the foot of the western face of which the roll was found inscribed 1619) - The width of this alignment is on average 0 m 60

Sector 203 204 E, pt. 1651 - 1 m 20 on burnt floor with a mosaic of sherds of fine workmanship, Mycenaean III C 1 c ("Close Style") \* one inscribed t. c. ball blackened pt. 1652 neighbouring bowl in cream t. c., broken.

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

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