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 9 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 5Scan 9 of 66

cf. p. 3the groups of painted pottery found between 1 m 20 and 1 m 50 between 7 and 8 points 226 and 227. - Large rectangular figured seal, steatite, found at the western limit of trench S (Pt. 228) in hearth of ashes and charcoal (griffin represented ?) - Fibula in bronze at - 1 m 40 (drawing) 229 7 : 5,m30 8 : 2,m80 typical of the beginning of the Iron Age -

Saturday14 Nov.FineweatherExcavations only in the morning from 7 to 11 H Continuation of the same areas as the day before Between 7 and 8, the large hearth shows an accumulation of ashes over 50 cm in thick ness between 1,m10 and 1,m60 depth among which are sherds of jar blackened. In 1, inscribed bead with several signs (5) at - 1 m 70, Pt 230, position pt. 228. immediately south of the E-W road. Between 5 and 6 at - 1,m10, bead-spindle whorl biconical, as at pt. 218 = Pt 231

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

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