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 31 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 15Scan 31 of 174

Thursday 19 Nov. 59fine weatherBetween 18 and 19, discovery of a large button-spindle whorl in the shape of a very flattened cap, in steatite, engraved with a rosette of six petals joined, inscribed within concentric circles concentric, in two series = Pt 245 at - 1 m depth 18 2 m 50 19 5,30 in a house dating from Iron I)

= 6 W *x= wavy line/ granary stylePt 246 at - 1 m 10 depth fragment of handle of ladle 1 in greenish t. c. inscribed with Cypriot signs, in context with painted Sub-Mycenaean sherds late (and Iron I ?), at 0 m 80 west / perpendicular piq. 1 between 1st and 2nd floor (this second floor is of crushed red brick)

Bronze pin = pt. 247 at 1,80 4 = 5,m80 5 4,m60

1 or wall applique, rather ?..-..

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

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