Notebook of Jacques-Claude Courtois, Enkomi 1959–1960Jacques-Claude Courtois

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Saturday 28 Nov.	In fine building at the stairs
1959	At one metre NNE of the "table"
Fine weather	Pt 285 Cup Mycenaean bowl	square
	Y = 4m80 X = 14m30	= LBC IItwo small handles
	in situ at - 1m70 on floor;
	shortly after, about 80 cm to the east:
	Egyptian scarab with cartouche= Thutmose III ??*
	Y 4m55 X 14m35 and sphinx
	= Pt 286 - 1m70
In new trench E-W to the east of the "Place"
Pt 287 discovery of a *cylinder stone
55 5m50 south of the peg
and at 12m30 from ch. E at 0m10
of depth only.
At the end of the morning at 12h the
excavation reached in this trench
only a shallow depth (30 cm
at most)

Written sideways: X

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

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