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Notebook·34 CDF art. 139-4·3 May 1976

Letter from Courtois to Schaeffer about a 1969 site plan and a copy of the planJacques-Claude Courtois

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

Scan 1 of notebook 34 CDF art. 139-4 (Letter from Courtois to Schaeffer about a 1969 site plan and a copy of the plan), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 139-4, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 1 of 4

Stratigraphic section, zone 7/8 W12

Drawing: stratigraphic section showing a hatched monolith with two blocks above on the left, horizontal soil layers, a hatched block on the right, and hatched bedrock at the bottom; labels: WEST; EAST; FLOOR I beaten earth; brown earth (Konnos); bronze blade; FLOOR II greyish slabs; charcoal; FLOOR III; WHITE; th. 3 cm; green cracked Konnos; sherds; MONOLITH; red-brown + white brick; FLOOR; IV; red Konnos; jar; white FLOOR; V; friable gravelly yellow-greyish subsoil; ROCK; Ht monolith = 0,66

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

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