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 175 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.

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Tuesday 21 November 1961Excavations resumed in the area, barely wet from the rain of the previous day and night.

Zone 134, the thick white floor (7 to 9 cm) covered by a bed of black ash is the earliest: it rests directly on the sterile dark red clay overlying the surface of the rock. the burnt layer is at - 1,45 the white floor between 1 m 50 and 1 m 58 the sterile red layer between 1 m 60 and 1,75 (natural rock)

At the limit of zones 133/134, fragments of animal figurines, very different types pt. 683 at - 1 m 45 (dont head of rhyton painted bovid L.C. III in " Pit " or II)

Zone 138, upper white floor at - 1 m 55 and lower white floor at - 1m 75 (surfaces)

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

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