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 27 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.

Page 14Scan 27 of 66

Margin left: 18-XI-59

(continued)In the "shaft tomb" 240, the grave goods consist of a very homogeneous series of painted jugs with a spherical body and one handle, with some spindle whorls in black incised t-c, and some distinct pottery of the Tell Yahudiyeh type with incised and white-inlaid decoration, and other fragments of vases with triangles also incised in red t. c. Note sherds of larger painted vessels and a large-handled neck tubular in brown-red burnished pottery _ Scattered animal bones The jugs were deposited around the edge of the pit, in several layers, along of the calcareous rock wall, except to the south -east where there was no pottery

At point 239, end of the drawing in situ and dismantling of the pottery around the kiln and removal of the "logs" of carbonised wood for analysis by C 14 .

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

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