Notebook·34 CDF art. 139-1·1969–1970

Enkomi 69 and 70, notebook of CourtoisJacques-Claude Courtois

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 7 of notebook 34 CDF art. 139-1 (Enkomi 69 and 70, notebook of Courtois), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 139-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 3Scan 7 of 92

Wednesday 5 November 1969The number of workmen continues to grow: we count 17 male pickmen and 37 women The trench is thus entirely occupied, and we are roughly everywhere at the depth of 0 m 30, at the end of the morning

Pt. [1878], at -0 m 40, sector 4 (7 W), an inscribed clay ball red-brown, in the brown earth: Cypriot level Iron I

Pt. [1879] at -0 m 40, sector 2 (7 W) a lead earring, with a series of broken wavy-line type pottery; a large stone disc-ring, and various traces and pieces of animal ossuments, against a concreted area adjoining the southern limit of street no. 6. At least three wavy line bowls are counted, and a jar in red earth -

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

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