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 35 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 18Scan 35 of 66

Monday 23 Nov.59 Resumption of the excavations with inauguration of the new employment system for the workmen, men only, for the opening of 2 new trenches situated in the zone of "between the two roads", the old and the new from Enkomi to Styllos, or part north-east of Alasia, not yet scientifically explored until then. Continuation of the North trench between pegs 11 and 16, and completion of the excavation at various points of Tr. South, pegs 5 - 6. Trench "Chapelle": between pegs 22 and 25 immediately under the present surface, zone fine grey ashes with very numerous thousands of sherds of pottery of Turkish period in all likelihood (XVI-XVIIIth c.) Pt. 257 Gold ring 21 2,m30 22 4,m60 at a depth of 30 cm.

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

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