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 89 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 44Scan 89 of 92

ENK. 70 (Continuation from p. 43)

Identification of the Floor V, in the sounding "sépulture": at the very foot of the western facing of the wall N-S with superstructure of brown mudbrick (eight courses separated by whitish bonding), a small rectangular sounding carried out in the afternoon of the last day of the research in Area 6 W, allowed the following two observations to be made: 1) the foundations of the N-S wall do not go any lower than the level of floor IV, mentioned on the previous page. These stone foundations rest on a layer of brown-red colour with whitish grains, itself covering the floor V, strewn with ashy debris, here sparse thin. Floor V lies 20/25 cm below floor IV, stripped over a large area, to the south of the cut made by the construction of the individual burial tomb, dating from Cypriot Iron I (period of floor IV, or of floor III). = sketch, next p. ——>

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

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