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 77 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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21-IX-60 (continued)

*INV. 138 = Pt 383INV. 137 = Pt 382[sketch: violin-bow fibula with spiral catch; labels:resting on the paved square of slabs of stone, or the famous "dallage". This enigmatic stratification resembles strangely that which makes up the roads of the Enkomi grid. - Opposite 59, under thick white floor sherd of bicoloured pottery of the type "Union Jack", at -1m 45 (Pt 381 - Opposite 47, discovery of a seal "dome-shaped" with a roughly engraved scene of an animal, and of a large fibula broken in bronze of the violin-bow type] degenerate (cf. perhaps Mouliana-Crete) These finds lie in the stratum of grey, ashy earth, at 1m 30 depth on average, at the level of the top of a wall of large blocks

Beau tempsx21 Sept.60 The continuation of the research in the strata terraced above the paving seems to indicate a late sub-Mycenaean phase (painted sherds, fibula, seal) • A cylinder wine-dark brown with stylised decoration : pt 386 = INV. 141

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

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