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 23 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 23 of 66

Stamp: 12

17 - XI- 59(continued)3rd layerImmediately below these latter uncovering of 17 (1) jugs of the same type, placed along the wall of the cavity-pit, western half; of animal bones appear between these pottery at - 2,m 70 - Shank of a pin or chisel in bronze, at - 0 m 80 ; pt 241 = 1 0 m 90 ; 2 6 m 10

In all / 53 jugs / + frags(1) = figure entirely provisional for the day: the number of them is much higher, as will be shown by the continuation of the excavation the next day .... (cf. p. 14 infra)

cf. p. 10P.S. at pt. 239 = during the dismantling of the hearth around the kiln, the following observations were made : north of the kiln, on floor in black ashes antler of cervid calcined; under the quern bedstone, south-west of the kiln, fine grey ashes in a thin layer; the layer of black ashes, studded with "cones" of friable earth, rests on a floor of pisé which itself rests on the socle sol chalky underlying ground .

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

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