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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 37 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 18Scan 37 of 174

Monday 23 Nov.59

Resumption of excavations, with the inauguration of the new employment system for workmen, men only, for the opening of 2 new trenches situated in the zone between the two roads, the old and the new from Enkomi to Styllos, or the part north-east of Alasia, not yet scientifically explored until then.

• Continuation of the North trench between piq. 11 and 16, and completion of the excavation at various points of Tr. South, piq. 5-6.

Trench "Chapelle": between piq 22 and 25 immediately below the present surface, zone fine grey ashes with thousands of sherds of pottery of the Turkish period in all probability (XVIe-XVIIIe c.)

Pt. 257 Ring in gold 21 2m,30 22 4m,60 at 30 cm depth.

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

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