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 11 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.

Page 5Scan 11 of 174

= 5 EInv. 2the groups of painted pottery found between 1 m 20 and 1 m 50 between 7 and 8 points 226 and 227 - Large figured rectangular seal, steatite found at the western limit of trench S * ( Pt 228 ) in hearth of ashes and charcoal ( griffin depicted ? ) - Fibula in bronze at - 1 m 40 (drawing) 229 7 : 5m,30 8 : 2m,80 typical of the beginning of the Iron Age 1

Saturday14 Nov.BeautempsExcavation only in the morning from 7 to 11H Continuation of the same areas as the day before Between 7 and 8, the large hearth shows an accumulation of ash over 50cm of thickness between 1m,10 and 1,m60 depth among which are found sherds of jar blackened. In 1 , inscribed ball 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 - 1m,10, 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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