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 31 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 16Scan 31 of 66

19-XI-59 The 5th layer (- 3 m) of the tomb (continued) at shaft 240 yielded only one small jug intact, the neck of a second, one spindle whorl with incised chevrons of the known type, and two loom weights (drawing) in unbaked clay, impossible to recover, one 20 cm high, diam. base: 9 cm × 7 cm, the other 9 cm high, diam. base 5 cm 5 × 4 cm, and two small grey-blue pebbles (continued and end, infra.), and sling bullets? in unfired earth.

Pt. 248 Jug, in situ on floor at - 1m 70 5 8 m 20 6 5 m 20

Bone stylus with suspension hole Pt 249 7 : 5 m 8 : 2 m 25 found on base floor (rock) at - 2 m 10 depth.

Pt 250 Jar handle inscribed with signs in the form of chevrons, found at - 1 m 40 between 1st and 2nd floor, 17 2 m 18 7 m

Pt 251 Stone cylinder (steatite?) at 1 m 10 in a "pit" 15 : 9 m 20 16 : 8 m

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

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