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 33 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.

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19-XI-59. The 5th layer (-3m) of the tomb (continued) at shaft 240 yielded only a juglet intact, the neck of a second, a spindle whorl with incised chevrons of the known type and two loom weights (drawing) in unfired clay, impossible to recover, one h. 20 cm, diam. base: 9 cm × 7 cm, the other h. 9 cm diam. base 5 cm 5 × 4 cm, and two small grey-blue pebbles (continued and end, infra.) and sling bullets? in earth

Pt 248 Jug, in situ on floor at -1m 70 5 8 m 20 6 5 m 20

Bone stylus with suspension hole Pt 249 7: 5 m 8: 2 m 25 found on base floor (?) at -2m 10 depth

(Region Baignoire 290) Pt 250 Jar handle inscribed with sign = 5W in the form of chevrons, found at - 1 m 40 between 1st and 2nd floor, 17 2 m 18 7 m

x Pt 251 Stone cylinder (steatite?) at 1 m 10 in a "pit" 15: 9 m 20 16 8 m

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

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