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 77 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 37Scan 77 of 208

Sector 112/113 E, following the clearing on the floor (IV), in the hall of pt. 1612 discovery of a fine steatite cylinder pt. top. 1618 at -1m depth, associated with bases of jugs and jars of the very beginning of Cypriot Iron I (it is just abovein the grey ashes that had been recovered the enormous quantity of small bowls with decoration mainly of spirals or parallel bands of the very common type (associated with the Close Style). On this cylinder, one recognises several quadruped animals, including a bull and two dogs or wolves in flying gallop (?)

Sector 113 E, at 14h 40, a woman in charge of clearing the Iron I strata in the room adjoining to the north of the one that yielded cylinder 1618 (above) announces to me that she has just discovered a "large cylinder of baked clay with writing".... she was entirely right: it is an object

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

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