Notebook·34 CDF art. 131·1959

Notebook of Jacques-Claude Courtois, Enkomi 1959–1960Jacques-Claude Courtois

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 107 of notebook 34 CDF art. 131 (Notebook of Jacques-Claude Courtois, Enkomi 1959–1960), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 131, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Xabundance, ranging from Middle Bronze (red- on black ware, red burnished pottery) to sub-Mycenaean (the fragments surely Mycenaean are very few in number)

NV. 264Square 65, small ring with spiral shank in bronze, at - 1 m 60, pt 474 (drawing) partly broken, found in the room with the two small lead ingots and at the jar buried, surrounded by stones, of which the fine floor white lay between - 1 m 25 and - 1 m 30

INV.245postAlasiaSquare 73: discovery of a face human, female mask, modelled in t.c. brownish ochre (fragment of rhyton ??) at only 0 m 25 depth, pt^ 477 find probably not in situ.

Square 34, in the room situated to the east-north-east of the large paving and not far from the sherd finds of pts^ 462/463 the continued meticulous clearing, stratum by stratum of a few cms, led to the discov-

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

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