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 149 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 73Scan 149 of 174

4 - X - 1960

Pt 557 = large pebble rectangular in bluish hard stone that may have served as weight ? at - 1m 80 in the fill below the white floor, square 73 at one metre fifty east of pt 548 (cf p. 71). To mention among the finds coming from "pits" a female figurine in t. c. incomplete (the torso and the head missing) and a bone button (drawing) domed on both faces, in square 32 72.

Wednesday 5 October 1960Last day of the actual excavations with staff moreover reduced - The work continues in squares 70 to 77. In square 77 the documentation concerning the Middle Bronze is enriched by a large number of sherds recovered in the layer of brown earth fairly loose with shells and pebbles. The north walls east and south of the Middle Bronze are definitively

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

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