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 139 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 68Scan 139 of 174

3-X-1960

a Cypriot incised sign, incomplete unfortunately (old break)

Drawing: incised sign made of two triangular elements] ; traces of red paint on the

stirrup.

= 5E, locus 11?*In 30-31, below wall Iron Age E-W, discovery of a cavity of brown-red earth fairly loose with very large vessels in greenish earth of two different types, with two handles, _bronze slag found in the same cavity_, with some sherds apparently Middle Bronze (red on black 1 fragment) or beginning Late Bronze 1 ?

5E (sud)[?sansSector 76-77, discovery of stratum literally packed with shells (small clams and cockles ?) with a bed of sherds of Middle Bronze (painted pottery and bowls of type red-on-black, large pt. top.] jars with incised cordon below the neck, etc). This stratum of the Middle Bronze lies between 2m 50 and 2m 80 deep. In the course of the afternoon, several walls(1) are identified by Mr Kuss and seem to date back to

(1) these walls in rubble are stratigraphically very below the foundations of the fine architecture

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

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