Notebook·34 CDF art. 130-2·1959

Courtois's notebook, Enkomi 1959Jacques-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 notebook 34 CDF art. 130-2 (Courtois's notebook, Enkomi 1959), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 130-2, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Unnumbered pageScan 19 of 66

Stamp: 10

(Cf. continuation page 12)Tuesday 17 | Between piq. 9 and 10, uncovered Nov. 59 | an interesting hearth with kiln h: 28cm of friable earth, | surrounded by a group of several th. 3cm pots, more or less well preserved dating from the sub-Mycenaean period or beginning of the Iron Age: pots with spherical body decorated with a series of horizontal parallel bands painted in red on greenish beige wall, without slip = pt. 239 9 = 3 m 10 = 2 m (kiln) The abundant black ashes on which the pots rest are at - 1 m 80 in depth: layer 5 to 10 cm thick which itself rests on the white floor. West of the kiln, interesting remains of wooden beams charred embedded in a kind of ochre-yellow pisé; also one notes a dozen (1) of "cylinders" or "cones" in brownish earth very friable, placed in the ashes. The hearth is bounded to the south by a stone and to the east by an ochre earth trough or a crushed jar? (1) much more in reality, about thirty in total

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

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