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 21 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 10Scan 21 of 174

Tuesday 17Nov. 59in friable earth= Close Stylestrainer vaseCorpus= Fig. 66..(continuedcf. page 12)Between piq 9 and 10, uncovered of an interesting hearth with kiln h: 28 cm /th. 3 cm\ surrounded by a group of several pottery, more or less well preserved dating from the = LC III A # Myc III C 1 sub-Mycenaean period ~ beginning of the Iron Age: pots with spherical body decorated with a series of horizontal parallel bands painted in red on greenish beige wall without slip = pt 239 9 : 3 m 10 : 2 m (kiln) The abundant black ashes on which the pottery rests are at - 1 m 80 from depth: layer 5 to 10 cm thick which itself rests on the white floor. West of the kiln, interesting remains of beams of wood carbonised embedded in a sort of ochre-yellow pisé; also one notes a dozen(1) of "cylinders" or "cones" in brownish earth very friable, placed in the ashes. The hearth is bounded to the south by a stone and to the east by an ochre earth trough or a crushed jar? (1) much more in reality, thirty approximately! (t.s.v.p)

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

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