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 69 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 33Scan 69 of 174

Tuesday 1st December = Last morning of excavations 1959 Fine weather of the 1959 campaign

, written sideways: = very summary! / missing 1 or 2 floors?Bowl / Late Decorated / Cypr. IIIStratigraphy of house 286 a) 1st floor, Iron Age, irregular at -0m90/-1m III B b) 2nd floor, pottery sub- III A Mycenaean 10 cm thick, white at -1m50/-1m70 + scarab + libation table / c) 3rd floor at -1,m90/-2m on the rock, then = LC II below d) Pit Middle Bronze, between -2m 10 and -2m60. LC I A (at the same depth, beside well which yielded pottery d Late Bronze (base-ring w. etc)

N-B = between floor 2 and floor 3, one notes a layer of fine grey ashes under a stratum of earth or red brick (in which the scarab 286 was found).

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

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