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 131 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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Sector 204 E, we proceed to stripping, meticulously, of floors IV and V, under the fallen blocks, immediately to the east of the sump/well (under 1655) - Very numerous series of sherds of the Final Mycenaean type. The smallest fragments are collected, one of them with octopus in white retouching associated with two ochre terracotta loom weights

Drawing: two loom weights, one sub-rectangular and one trapezoidal, each with a suspension hole near the top] . Next, we recognise

the eastern enclosure wall of the room where all these accumulations of sherds and burnt floors superimposed . It is a wall of fairly large medium-dressed blocks, and non-ashlar,- wide 64 cm, and preserved over 1,80 m high. total, and over 0 m 80 above the floor VI, itself lying at 0 m 35 below floor V with a covering of sherds

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

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