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 55 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 29Scan 55 of 66

(continued from p. 27)

Saturday 28 Nov.In fine building with the stairs 1959 At one metre NNE of the "table" square Fine weather Ptt 285 Sub-Mycenaean bowl Y = 4 m 80 X = 14 m 30 with two small handles in situ at - 1 m 70 on floor; shortly after, some 80 cm to the east: * Scarab Egyptian with cartouche Y 4,55 X 14 m 35 and sphinx = Pt 286 - 1 m 70

In new trench E-W to the east of the "Place" Pt 287 discovery of a cylinder stone 55 = 5 m 50 south of the peg. and at 12 m 30 from nail C at 0 m 10 of depth only. At the end of the morning at 11H, the excavation has reached in this trench only a shallow depth: 30 cm, at most.

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

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