Notebook·34 CDF art. 132·1960

Kuss notebook: notes and sketches, Enkomi 1960R. Kuss

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 20 of notebook 34 CDF art. 132 (Kuss notebook: notes and sketches, Enkomi 1960), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 132, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 3Scan 20 of 39

ENK. 60 - Sketch of 10-X-60

East trench. Beau Bâtiment, sector 30 - 31

Drawing: stratigraphic section with walls to left and right, rubble layer, floor levels, a pit in bedrock, and sketched vessels; labels: = North wall (in reality); present surface; Clou - Piquet 9; North; (to the west); Pt. 220 1959; on latest floor at -0m95; Tripod cooking-pot, pt.; West wall; h: 81 cm; 140; h. 115 cm; at -1m25 pt. 415, bovid figurine with sherds on bed of ash, "wavy lines"; 103 cm; 50 to 60 cm; very late rubble wall; Floor wall ??; brick-red brown earth: th. 40 cm; h: 44 cm; B. B.; destruction layer with discontinuous ash, thickness c. 20 cm; (2); grey ash; white floor; B 1; grey ash and charcoal; 25 cm; knife; 419; 3; WHITE FLOOR; 1; -2,20; 1m below; Pit descending to -2m25 between wall and E-W road called the Temples road; ROCK; Mycenaean sherds; Vitrified crucible; + 4 Middle Bronze sherds; in sector 31 (situated in locus south); [the fine North wall was drawn on the left

N. B. When this sketch was made, a sherd of _red-onblack ware_ was recovered, embedded in the edge of the crucible against the wall of the latter, with animal bones (cattle)

(1) Small inscribed ball under original white floor. (2) in the centre of the room, this layer of ash (th. only 13 cm) grey-black is homogeneous and the late wall is built directly on top of it. a (3) White Floor "tea-cup" = 7 cm "white floor called floor "B. 2" thickness, rests on the brown-red and whitish surface of the limestone rock natural, partly decomposed. (4) The stratigraphy does not show distinct strata for Br. R and Br. M.

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

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