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 121 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 59Scan 121 of 174

Friday 30-9-1960

[sketch: small rectangular block with a circle on its front face4 EINV.386Inv. =267Continuation of the excavations in the east trench of sectors 65 to 78 ] Sector 68, pt 517 pion en fritte (drawing) at - 2^m 10 = 4 E INV. 252 Sector 66, anse de cratère mycénien at 30 cm sous sol blanc under jamb of a late door, pt 518 at - 2^m - immediately south of the room with the 2 jars in situ , = 4 E Sector 69, at the base of the north flank of the temple road E-W between 1^m, 60 and 1^m, 80 depth some sherds of "close style ware" = Myc III C 1 - . - Sector 72 73, pt 519 taureau en t.c. greenish of the common type of the Iron Age, at - 1 m, in brown-red earth – Sector 76, Pt 521 at - 1^m 10, Fairly large boule t.c. inscrite of four signs, or perhaps five, dating from the Iron Age according to the pottery context where the wavy style unquestionably predominates lines.

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

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