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 137 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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à citerIn sector 42 43, situated immediately to the north and downhill of the large paving, the resumption of the excavations in depth confirms the existence of traces of dwellings (?) dating back to Middle Bronze III according to the abundant harvest of painted sherds or of type red-on-black (cf. already p. 44 of the present excavation journal); uncovered of walls or foundations of rubble wall "Affaire du 4 octobre 1960"

In sector 31 in brown earth brownish, Late Bronze sherds in the brownish layer under the thick white floor original of the Building (some sherds of of milk bowl Late Bronze and 2 frags of pottery in the thickness of the white floor base-ring with remains of white floor adhering extending over the whole of the room). Below The Late Bronze sherds comprise mainly Cypriot "milk-bowl" "leather ware" and a Mycenaean sherd painted in lustrous red of good workmanship —

Sector 73: in a "pit", handle of jar of degenerate Mycenaean stirrup type, bears INV. 366

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

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