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 29 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 14Scan 29 of 174

Margin left: 18-XI-59

(continued)In the "well tomb" 240 the grave goods consist of a very homogeneous series of painted jugs with globular body and one handle, with a few spin dles in incised black T.C., and a few distinct pottery of the Tell Yahudiyeh type with incised and white-inlaid decoration, and other fragments of vessels with triangles, also incised in red T.C. One notes sherds of larger painted vessels and a neck with a large tubular handle in lustrous brown-red pottery (jug Scattered animal bones red on red The jugs were deposited around the perimeter of the pit, in several layers, along the calcareous rock wall, except to the south -east where there was no pottery

At point 239, end of the in situ drawing and dismantling of the pottery around the kiln and removal of the "logs" of carbonised wood for C 14 analysis. not done

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

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