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 91 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 44Scan 91 of 174

23-9-60 / (continued)INV. 172 =III, BPt 421 at -1,m90, bone button blackened, conical shape, in layer ash seeming to date from the Late Bronze according to the pottery fragments some of which are Mycenaean (late). rims of bowls or cups with red spirals or brown-red on cream slip

* / = Canaanite / and SDL ?In sector 36, east of the large paving, discovery of two jars * ovoid in coarse earth, resting on the first floor at 1m depth. Apart from these jars, very little pottery and in any case atypical. = above the double Burial... 446

cf. PhotosIn sector 42 43, north of the large paving, two "pockets" are discovered containing numerous pottery sherds of Middle Bronze; including a neck of large trefoil-spouted jug, greenish earth painted in black, and of bowls of type "red - on - black". In one case, it would be a "pit", but the stratum is certain in

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

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