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 99 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 48Scan 99 of 174

= Niv / IIB / CR IICto the N-E of the large paving (room adjoining), at - 2 m. - Sector 30, quadrangular shank of chisel ? in bronze, pt 457 at - 2m,50, at 1 m. to the east stake 9 - Sector 66 67, at the foot of an east-west wall 1 Base of cup ? in engraved steatite, at - 1 m 05, in compact brownish earth = pt. 456 = INV. 369

Pt 458 bronze arrowhead in stratum of fine grey ash INV. 262

Pt 463 / folded / [sketch: spiraldo~~[?Pt[?ØPt 459 painted sherd at - 2 m same sector 34 to be photographed vessel which ] With small bronze ribbon Pt 462 on floor 1 bone pin sector 34 at - 2 m, on floor - Pt 463 same sector, needle with eye in bronze ~~ / CR IIC] at 2 m. north of pt. 462, with painted sherd of the bird or quadruped ? stylised 27cm / at rim / wall: / 8 mm] Mycenaean probably, in sealed layer under white slip Ochre earth, beige slip yellowish, dark brown paint varying to light brown bistre; rim painted lustrous.

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

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