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 135 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 66Scan 135 of 174

Monday 3 October 1960The excavations continue only in the East trench sectors 30 - 38 (completion of the investigations) and sectors 69 - 78 . In the part west of the fine building 30 - 31 , the workmen begin the original white floors sub Mycenaean?? in order to allow a study of the underlying strata, where they exist. - - (do not exist = it is the rock.)

Sector 34 = resumption also of the careful excavation in the N-E corner: = Stratigraphic diagram under pt 462/463 (cf. page 48)

Drawing: stratigraphic section with horizontal layers and a hatched column on the left; labels: 1st; 2nd; 7 cm

stratum of ash and charcoal } th. 6 cm white floor supr. homogeneous hard } th. 4 cm sterile grey-greenish clayey earth } th. 4 cm stratum of red brick earth and white elements 3 cm white floor infer. compact 6 to 8 cm th red earth and lime R 12 cm th 7 cm { stratum of grey ash, with sherds "milk bowl" Cypriot WS II Total thickness totale = 45 cm for the various layers

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

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