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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 51 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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Margin left: Thursday

26-XI-59fine weather(continued)in 6 W XOpening of the new trench N-S called 51 - 56, immediately parallel- -el to and east of the N-S road. Jar and cooking pot L.C. grey-black pt. 272 X: 11 m 50 Y: 6 m 30 in tr. South Zone Bldg 18, at - 1 m 25

At ptt 271, discovery of several beads carnelian and frit under the neck of the individual buried in a flexed position then of a pestle in stone under the bones of the skull.

In the new trench N-S, nothing to report before 15H, where begin the finds: first an anthropomorphic idol -morphic in L.C. coarse, pt 273 at - 0 m 40 between 3 and 4. then a large bronze pin with terminal eye, pt. 274 at 0 m 90 of depth, near peg 6: 2 m 80 - 5: 3 m 10 (Coarse pottery predominant, with some "wavy lines" pottery -)

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

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