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Manuscript·34 CDF art. 175·30 November 1961

Note on the main results of the Enkomi excavation season, 6–30 November 1961, with three pages of sketchesJacques-Claude Courtois

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

Scan 19 of manuscript 34 CDF art. 175 (Note on the main results of the Enkomi excavation season, 6–30 November 1961, with three pages of sketches), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 175, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 19 of 20

ENK. 61 23-XI-61 present SURFACE

Drawing: stratigraphic section showing masonry blocks, rubble walls, pithos, bedrock, and multiple soil layers with vertical measurements; labels: 50; 1 m 15; 65; 95; 65; 40; [Level TAUREAUX]; 15; Wavy lines; greyish; white floor; 20; greyish subsoil; 10; * MASQUE t.c.; bed of ash and charcoal; sherd; 10; grey layer (sterile clay); 80; PITHOS; 84; 30; brown-red; floor (traces); thin white; brown-red; ash; * Myc. III B sherd; * Myc. III B handle; White floor; 6 to 8 cm; 30; sterile yellow stratum except pocket of sherds CM III; sterile yellow stratum; ROCK at - 2 m 20

West Zone 131 west East rég. pt. 682

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

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