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 119 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 58Scan 119 of 208

1653 , rim of krater with triglyph of transition Mycenaean III B/C, on burnt floor all studded with pottery fragments of the very end of the Bronze Age, the clearing of which constitutes one of the best surprises of the morning (it is the area with very rich stratigraphy of the Final Bronze above the lower well, precisely sealed by these thin strata, each comprising a bed of grey ash

XA few centimetres from the ball 1651 A inscribed a weight of fine workmanship (drawing) , with base cracked by the action of fire, pt. 1651 B, resting on the burnt floor, among Mycenaean III B -

The area of flat sherds becomes clearer little by little in the course of the morning; it extends at least up to two metres south of the rim of krater 1653

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

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