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 211 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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Fine weather 3rd day

Wednesday 14 NovemberAt dawn, a massive arrival of candidate workmen by bus, from Yialoussa in the Karpass, having come following an intervention by the Labour Exchange of the Famagusta district, Monday morning: the result = 61 workmen in all, of whom one some forty without any experience of excavation archaeological prior to their engagement... 38 of these new workmen are distributed along the length of the new Trench EAST (of sect. H de Contenson 1961)

Tr. West Paving = from the beginning of the morning interesting stratified, painted pottery, in situ , pt. top. 709 at 1m 20

pt. top. 710 at 1m = Mycenaean III. B sherd

pt. top. 711 at 1 m 35, in red earth , bronze stem + sherds

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

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