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 45 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 21Scan 45 of 208

Thursday 2 November 1967Despite the bad weather with intermittent rain, excavations continue especially in the East trench, newly opened of sectors 101 to 114 and 19+20, where the six slabs are covered with black ash and blackened pithos sherds On the south slab, hemispherical remains of kiln wall yielding fragments of bowls of Cypriot Iron I. Immediately to the east is the contemporary well of this installation in ashlar damaged by the well diggers.

Sector 9, bronze rod with hooked ends at -1m60, associated with multiple fragments of varied painted pottery of Middle Cypriot III pt. 1591 Sector 017, at 0,65, pt 1592 hindquarters of bull, t.c. painted bistre-brown

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

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