Courtois's notebook, Enkomi 1959Jacques-Claude Courtois

Tuesday 1^st December 1959: Last morning of excavations Fine weather of the 1959 campaign –

Stratigraphy of house "286" a) 1^st floor, Iron Age, irregular at - 0 m 90 / - 1 m b) 2^nd floor white pottery sub-Mycenaean six cm thick, at - 1 m 50 / - 1^m 70 { scarab { table of { libation c) 3^rd floor at - 1^m 90 / - 2 m white, covered with grey ashes on the rock, then below · d) Pit Middle Bronze, between - 2 m 10 and - 2 m 60 . (at the same depth, beside well which yielded pottery of the Late Bronze (base-ring w. etc)

N-B = between floor 2 and floor 3, one notes a lay- er of fine grey ashes under a stratum of earth or red brick (in which was found the scarab 286).