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 117 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 57Scan 117 of 174

29/9/60

5E– Square 72 at -1m 30, bronze pin shank ? in reddish brown earth the shank, oxidised, seems twisted? Square 73, another fragment of thin shank in bronze, at the same depth. Square 71: uncovered remarkable dressed blocks, one of which with very fine boss regular on the west face of facing: = these blocks seem to belong to the walls east and south of the fine "building with the cup" 468.

Square 70, jug with "bucchero" fluted body Iron Age on late floor near a coarse earthenware jar, at -1m 35, pt. 508 in context with "wavy line" bowl sherds very characteristic (drawing) Inv. 274 Pt 509 at -1m 20, weight in black greenish carefully polished stone (drawing) 70. Inscribed handle pt. 510 at -1 m 10, square 71. with spindle whorl steatite engraved concentric circles ques Pt: 510 end of iron knife blade at -1 m 10 in brownish earth 74 mais very probably in old excavation

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

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