Notebook·34 CDF art. 133-2·1961–1963

Courtois's notebooks, Enkomi 1961, 1962, 1963Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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

Scan 143 of notebook 34 CDF art. 133-2 (Courtois's notebooks, Enkomi 1961, 1962, 1963), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 133-2, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 31Scan 143 of 510

N.B.: no page 30

Wednesday 15 November 1961Fog in the morning _ Very hot after 10h30 Completion of the excavation at the bottom of the pits and of tomb 629, then opening of the new trench 130->138, east of the previous one, at 8h30 From tomb 629 comes a plaque rectangular in bone, appearing engraved with a design.

Area 137, bronze pin, pt 632 twisted shank, head square in section (?), found at - 0m15 (+ Idol t. c. bras écartés (prob. early Iron)

The stripping cf. p. 27 (pt 105) of the burnt floors, area 106 clearly brought out the superimposition of 2 floors in lime, both covered with a layer of ash. In the ash, on the lower floor, uncovered a true bed of sherds

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

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