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 39 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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, written sideways: published by / D. Bakirtzis / in 1987(XIII - XIVth c.)23=XI=59 Many fragments of vessels (continued) in polychrome glazed pottery or glazed, yellow + green; brown - red and white, etc., quickly come to confirm the attribution of the areas ashy 22 25 of the Tr. Chapelle to the period medieval, before immediately after the conquest of the island in 1571 (according to the appearance of the pottery Cypriot late Byzantine glazed collected: to be checked ?) - Must one conclude the existence of a potter's kiln established within the enceinte of ancient Alasia, in the XVI or XVIIth c. AD ? . . .

In the trench N-E - Enceinte, earth brown, practically sterile around the 5 limestone blocks which protruded before the start of the excavations at this spot.

N-W end of trench Chapelle = area sterile earth after piq 21 -> NW contrasting with area of pottery waste towards the south-east (between 21 and 25

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

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