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 145 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 71Scan 145 of 174

Tuesday 4 October 1960

5 Eon floor / whiteIn sector 37 sherd of " milk-bowl " grey, painted brown in situ in layer of fine grey ashes, at the base of the important stratification recognised in this sector, and at 25cm below the thick white floor. - Sector 72, jar burial placed on the rock, at - 2m, under the collapse of upper walls, cut blocks falling into brown earth (not excavated in 1960) - Sector 33, pt. 548, at - 1m 75 in brown earth, stone weight black polished (drawing) and bronze needle with eye - Sector 75, pt. 549 on jar resting at the base of a deep silo discovered a steatite seal

Drawing: trapezoidal stamp seal with a hole near the top] engraved on the flat of a curious

X ( / 5 E / Sudroughly traced motif (drawing), at - 3m deep. = INV. 302 > Sector 77 sherds "milk bowl" on lower white floor, situated at 45 cm au de under the foundation course of the fine wall

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

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