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 147 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 72Scan 147 of 174

= Stratigraphic section to be reconstructed from depth ?4-X-1960

77with boss N-S, at 2^m 20 depth total, pt 550. One metre to the east traces of a circular hearth of nearly one metre in diameter -

OKIn sector 31 dismantling of the floor white allowed the discovery of a small sherd painted with some brownred (drawing) of Mycenaean appearance pt 551 at -2 m _ = late III B

In sector 75 76, flat bead (drawing) of blue paste very friable at -2^m 10 pt 553 INV.

pt556=INV.606In sector 74, in the thickness of the white floor itself, discovery of a a bead sling bullet of lead in the shape of an olive, pt. 554 at -1m 70, and at 2m 10 north of the façade of the fine E-W wall with sharp joints A second lead sling bullet found to the east Sector 30: Boule t. c. inscribed with 4 signs found in the at the base of the thick original white floor. pt 555 at -2^m 10 ;- this brown ball has a smaller diameter than usual. The floor rests here on the surface-decomposed rock.

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

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