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 29 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 29 of 66

Stamp: 15

Thursday 19 Nov. 59fine weatherBetween 18 and 19, discovery of a large button-spindle whorl in the shape of a very flattened cap, in steatite, engraved with a rosette of six petals linked, set within circles concentric, in two series - = Pt 245 at - 1 m depth 18 2 m 50 19 5 m, 30 in a house dating from Iron I

Pt 246 at - 1 m 10 depth fragment of handle of ladle in t. c. greenish inscribed with Cypriot signs, in context with painted sub-Mycenaean sherds late (and Iron I ?), at 0 m 80 west/perpendicular piq. 1 between 1st and 2nd floor (this second floor is of pounded red brick)

Bronze pin = pt 247 at - 1,m80 4 = 5m,80 5 4m,60

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

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