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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 49 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.

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Margin left: Thursday

26-XI-59fine weather(continued)Opening of the new trench N-S called 51 to 56 immediately parallel -lel and east of the N-S road. Jar and cooking pot coarse black L.C. pt 272 X: 11m 50, Y: 6m 30 in tr. South Zone Bldg. 18, at -1m 25

At ptt 271, discovery of several beads carnelian and frit ? under the neck of the individual buried in a flexed position then of a pestle in stone under the bones of the skull.

In the new trench N-S, nothing to report before 13H, where begin the finds: first an anthropo morphic idol in coarse L.C. pt 273 at -0m 40 between 53 and 54, then a large bronze needle with terminal eye, pt 274 at 0m 90 from depth. near peg 6: 2m 80 5: 5m 10 Coarse pottery predominant, with some "wavy lines" pottery -

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

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